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Original article English Amara MK, Sagher FA. Department of Pediatrics, Alkadra Teaching Hospital, Tripoli, Libya. Saudi Med J. 2000 Jul;21(7):645-8. Abstract OBJECTIVE: To study the clinical pattern of coeliac disease in children living in the northwest coast of Libya, to investigate the sensitivity and specificity of D-Xylose, fat load test and antigliadin antibody and their …

D-Xylose, fat load test and antigliadin antibody in children with coeliac disease. Read More »

Letter English Sagher FA, Miller V, Ward IC. Saudi Med J. 2001 Oct;22(10):931. Abstract Keywords: Red cell fatty acid profile and elemental diet in childhood Crohn’s disease. Link/DOI:

Letter English Sagher FA, Miller V. Saudi Med J. 2001 Nov;22(11):1035. Abstract Keywords: Gut peptides and elemental diet in childhood Crohn’s disease. Link/DOI:

Original article English al-Tubuly AA, Luqmani YA, Shousha S, Melcher D, Ritter MA • Department of Immunology, Royal Postgraduate Medical School, Hammersmith Hospital, London, UK. Br J Cancer. 1996 Oct;74(7):1005-11. Abstract In this study, we used immunohistochemical and biochemical analysis to show that gp200-MR6, a 200 kDa molecule that is functionally associated with the human …

Differential expression of gp200-MR6 molecule in benign hyperplasia and down-regulation in invasive carcinoma of the breast. Read More »

Original article English Elzagheid A, Collan Y. Department of Pathology, University of Turku, Fin-20520, Turku. Anal Quant Cytol Histol. 2003 Apr;25(2):73-80. Abstract OBJECTIVE: To study the potential of nuclear morphometry in supporting the interpretation of fine needle aspiration biopsy (FNAB) samples of the breast fixed in 50% ethanol and centrifuged on slides. STUDY DESIGN: Computerized …

Fine needle aspiration biopsy of the breast. Value of nuclear morphometry after different sampling methods. Read More »

Original article English Elzagheid A, Kuopio T, Ilmen M, Collan Y. Department of Pathology, University of Turku, Finland. Histopathology. 2002 Aug;41(2):127-33. Abstract AIMS: We tried to improve the evaluation of E-cadherin immunostaining in paraffin sections, to distinguish the less aggressive variants of ductal infiltrating breast cancer from other variants. METHODS AND RESULTS: The method graded …

Prognostication of invasive ductal breast cancer by quantification of E-cadherin immunostaining: the methodology and clinical relevance. Read More »

Original article English Elzagheid A, Collan Y. Department of Pathology, University of Turku, Finland. Anal Cell Pathol. 2002;24(4-5):159-65. Abstract 48 fine needle aspiration biopsy (FNAB) samples from 25 breast cancer cases, originally used for cytodiagnosis were subjected to DNA cytometry. There were air dried smears stained with the MGG method, and samples stained with HE …

Dependence of DNA-histograms on the sampling techniques in fine needle aspirates of the breast. Read More »

Original article English Elzagheid A 1, Kuopio T 2, Korhonen AM 3, Collan Y 1. 1-Department of Pathology, University of Turku, Turku, Finland, 2-Jyvنskylن Central Hospital, Jyvنskylن, Finland and 3-Pathology Laboratory of South-West Finland, Turku, Finland APMIS. 2003 Sep;111(9):898-904. Abstract The aim of this study was to investigate the potential of computerized nuclear morphometry and …

Apocrine change in fine-needle aspiration biopsy: nuclear morphometry and DNA image cytometry. Read More »

Original article English Elzagheid A, Kuopio T, Collan Y. Department of Pathology, University of Turku, Finland. Cancer. 2004 Dec 25;102(6):380-8. Abstract BACKGROUND: For this study, the diagnostic protocol included fine-needle aspiration biopsy (FNAB) and DNA cytometric measurements. The objective of the study was to improve the diagnostic sensitivity of FNAB. METHODS: Sixty-eight FNAB samples were …

Implementation of DNA cytometric measurements in fine-needle aspiration biopsy diagnostics of breast disease. Read More »

Review English Elzagheid A, Kuopio T, Pyrhonen S, Collan Y. Department of Oncology and Radiotherapy, Turku University Hospital, Savitehtaankatu 1 PB 52, FIN-20521, Turku, Finland. adibel@utu.fi. Diagn Pathol. 2006 Nov 8;1:41. Abstract ABSTRACT: Prognosticators evaluating survival in breast cancer vary in significance in respect to lymph node status. Studies have shown e.g. that HER2/neu immunohistochemistry …

Lymph node status as a guide to selection of available prognostic markers in breast cancer: the clinical practice of the future? Read More »