Zhonghua bing li xue za zhi Chinese journal of pathology
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Zhonghua Bing Li Xue Za Zhi · Jan 1994
[AIDS complicated with disseminated toxoplasmosis: a pathological study of 9 autopsy cases].
Nine autopsy cases of disseminated toxoplasmosis in New York are reported. Brain were involved in 9 cases, heart in 8, lung in 4, and pancreas, GI tract, thyroid, lymph nodes and urogenital organs were also involved. ⋯ Only toxoplasma encephalitis and pneumonia produced signs and symptoms leading to diagnosis by CT scan of brain, toxoplasma antibody titer and confirmed by smears, bone marrow biopsy and autopsy based on recognition of encysted toxoplasma. The authors classified the lesions as static (latent), necrotic, infiltrative and proliferative status, with the emphasis on the diagnostic significance of identification of toxoplasma, especially its encysted form.
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Zhonghua Bing Li Xue Za Zhi · Feb 1992
[Pathological analysis of sudden coronary death in 31 autoptic cases].
31 cases of sudden coronary death (within 1 hour, unexpected death) in 160 autoptic cases of coronary heart disease were studied (19.4%), including 24 male and 7 female; age 16-79, average 59.5. Most cases of sudden death had no obvious inductive causes. 18 patients died without cardiac symptoms, including those died before admission or during deep sleep. There was atherosclerotic stenosis (grade 4), of the coronary artery in 25 cases, of which 18 cases were with multiple branches involvement (grade 4) and 7 cases were with simple branch damage. ⋯ Old myocardial infarction was seen in 14 cases, and it was combined with acute myocardial infarction in 8 cases. Simple acute myocardial infarction was only seen in 2 cases. 8 cases showed ventricular aneurysm and 1 patient died of cardiac rupture. Conclusively, severe coronary stenosis and myocardial infarction are considered as one of the important bases of sudden coronary death.
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Zhonghua Bing Li Xue Za Zhi · Jun 1989
[The significance of mummy cell in the diagnosis of Hodgkin's disease].
The mummy cell is a necrotic single cell in lympho-reticular lesion, and it is characterized by the pattern of distributing isolated in a lympho-reticular background without detachment from the surrounding cells, staining deeply or amphibic in mature both nuclei and cytoplasm and the ghost nuclei are often recognized. Totally, 95 lympho-node biopsies were reviewed, the mummy cells can be found in 21/24 of Hodgkin's disease and 18/71 of other lesions (NHL, reactive hyperplasia etc.). They are more common in nodular sclerosis (NS) and lymphocyte depletion (LD) among the four subtypes of Hodgkin's disease. It is worthwhile to note the suggestive role of mummy cells in pathological diagnosis of Hodgkin's disease.