Reviews:

Best Practice No 179: Guidelines for breast needle core biopsy handling and reporting in breast screening assessment

I O Ellis, S Humphreys, M Michell, S E Pinder, C A Wells, and H D Zakhour

J Clin Pathol 2004; 57: 897-902. doi:10.1136/jcp.2003.010983

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The detection of circulating breast cancer cells in blood

A M Gilbey, D Burnett, R E Coleman, and I Holen

J Clin Pathol 2004; 57: 903-911. doi:10.1136/jcp.2003.013755

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Demystified... recombinant antibodies

K A Smith, P N Nelson, P Warren, S J Astley, P G Murray, and J Greenman

J Clin Pathol 2004; 57: 912-917. doi:10.1136/jcp.2003.014407

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Original articles:

Morules in endometrial carcinoma and benign endometrial lesions differ from squamous differentiation tissue and are not infected with human papillomavirus

K Chinen, K Kamiyama, T Kinjo, A Arasaki, Y Ihama, T Hamada, and T Iwamasa

J Clin Pathol 2004; 57: 918-926. doi:10.1136/jcp.2004.017996

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Prognostic significance of tenascin-C expression in superficial and invasive bladder cancer

A Brunner, C Mayerl, A Tzankov, I Verdorfer, I Tschörner, H Rogatsch, and G Mikuz

J Clin Pathol 2004; 57: 927-931. doi:10.1136/jcp.2004.016576

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Expression pattern of CK7, CK20, CDX-2, and villin in intestinal-type sinonasal adenocarcinoma

M T Kennedy, R C K Jordan, K W Berean, and B Perez-Ordoñez

J Clin Pathol 2004; 57: 932-937. doi:10.1136/jcp.2004.016964

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Ki-ras gene mutations, LOH of the APC and DCC genes, and microsatellite instability in primary colorectal carcinoma are not associated with micrometastases in pericolonic lymph nodes or with patients’ survival

N P Zauber, C Wang, P S Lee, T C Redondo, D T Bishop, and A Goel

J Clin Pathol 2004; 57: 938-942. doi:10.1136/jcp.2004.017814

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What happens to patients with positive tissue transglutaminase and endomysium antibody results in general practice?

D Sinclair and H Duncan

J Clin Pathol 2004; 57: 943-945. doi:10.1136/jcp.2004.016261

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Serrated adenomas of the appendix

C A Rubio

J Clin Pathol 2004; 57: 946-949. doi:10.1136/jcp.2004.018317

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Relation between lymphopenia and bacteraemia in UK adults with medical emergencies

D H Wyllie, I C J W Bowler, and T E A Peto

J Clin Pathol 2004; 57: 950-955. doi:10.1136/jcp.2004.017335

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The predictive value of total serum IgE for a positive allergen specific IgE result

D Sinclair and S A Peters

J Clin Pathol 2004; 57: 956-959. doi:10.1136/jcp.2004.017681

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Supervised automated microscopy increases sensitivity and efficiency of detection of sentinel node micrometastases in patients with breast cancer

W E Mesker, H Torrenga, W C R Sloos, H Vrolijk, R A E M Tollenaar, P C de Bruin, P J van Diest, and H J Tanke

J Clin Pathol 2004; 57: 960-964. doi:10.1136/jcp.2004.017368

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CD133 positive endothelial progenitor cells contribute to the tumour vasculature in non-small cell lung cancer

W Hilbe, S Dirnhofer, F Oberwasserlechner, T Schmid, E Gunsilius, G Hilbe, E Wöll, and C M Kähler

J Clin Pathol 2004; 57: 965-969. doi:10.1136/jcp.2004.016444

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Presence of vascular adventitial fibroblastic cells in diffuse-type gastric carcinomas

H Nakayama, H Enzan, E Miyazaki, N Kuroda, M Toi, M Hiroi, and W Yasui

J Clin Pathol 2004; 57: 970-972. doi:10.1136/jcp.2004.017137

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Colonic IgA producing cells and macrophages are reduced in recurrent and non-recurrent Clostridiumdifficile associated diarrhoea

S S Johal, C P Lambert, J Hammond, P D James, S P Borriello, and Y R Mahida

J Clin Pathol 2004; 57: 973-979. doi:10.1136/jcp.2003.015875

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Discrepancies between clinical and postmortem diagnoses in Jamaica: a study from the University Hospital of the West Indies

T N Gibson, S E Shirley, C T Escoffery, and M Reid

J Clin Pathol 2004; 57: 980-985. doi:10.1136/jcp.2004.016246

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Echoes:

GPs prefer more direction from laboratory reports on vaginal discharge

J Clin Pathol 2004; 57: 942.

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SARS coronavirus in tears

J Clin Pathol 2004; 57: 979.

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Blood culture in community acquired pneumonia

J Clin Pathol 2004; 57: 985.

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Short report:

A primary amelanotic melanoma of the vagina, diagnosed by immunohistochemical staining with HMB-45, which recurred as a pigmented melanoma

H Oguri, C Izumiya, N Maeda, T Fukaya, and T Moriki

J Clin Pathol 2004; 57: 986-988. doi:10.1136/jcp.2004.016220

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Case reports:

Statin precipitated lactic acidosis?

R Neale, T M Reynolds, and W Saweirs

J Clin Pathol 2004; 57: 989-990. doi:10.1136/jcp.2004.015958

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A fatal case of disseminated aspergillosis caused by a non-sporulating strain of Aspergillus fumigatus

M E Callister, M J Griffiths, A G Nicholson, A Leonard, E M Johnson, M I Polkey, and J R Kerr

J Clin Pathol 2004; 57: 991-992. doi:10.1136/jcp.2003.014449

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Mediastinal hibernoma: a case report

A Baldi, M Santini, P Mellone, V Esposito, A M Groeger, M Caputi, and F Baldi

J Clin Pathol 2004; 57: 993-994. doi:10.1136/jcp.2004.017897

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Resolution of chronic severe refractory thrombocytopenia after treatment of hypothyroidism

K M Bowles, G E Turner, and J Z Wimperis

J Clin Pathol 2004; 57: 995-996. doi:10.1136/jcp.2004.016543

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Ciliary body adenoma of non-pigmented epithelium

S Mansoor and A Qureshi

J Clin Pathol 2004; 57: 997-998. doi:10.1136/jcp.2004.017871

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Myelofibrosis and angiodysplasia of the colon: another manifestation of portal hypertension and massive splenomegaly?

T Biss and P Hamilton

J Clin Pathol 2004; 57: 999-1000. doi:10.1136/jcp.2003.015479

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Pathology of astrovirus associated diarrhoea in a paediatric bone marrow transplant recipient

N J Sebire, M Malone, N Shah, G Anderson, H B Gaspar, and W D Cubitt

J Clin Pathol 2004; 57: 1001-1003. doi:10.1136/jcp.2004.017178

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A case of 49,XXXXX in which the extra X chromosomes were maternal in origin

Y G Cho, D S Kim, H S Lee, S C Cho, and S I Choi

J Clin Pathol 2004; 57: 1004-1006. doi:10.1136/jcp.2004.017475

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Correspondence:

Lymphadenoma of the salivary gland: a rare tumour

N B Musthyala, S E Low, and R H Seneviratne

J Clin Pathol 2004; 57: 1007. doi:10.1136/jcp.2004.018028

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Gastric precancerous lesion follow up based on pathological evidence

M Cassaro, G Pennelli, M Rugge, F Farinati, and G Zaninotto

J Clin Pathol 2004; 57: 1007-1008. doi:10.1136/jcp.2004.018069

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Book review:

Medical Microbiology

J R Kerr

J Clin Pathol 2004; 57: 1008. doi:10.1136/jcp.2004.019620

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Corrections:

CORRECTION

J Clin Pathol 2004; 57: 1008. doi:10.1136/jcp.2003.012120corr1

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