At the junctures of healthcare: a qualitative study of primary and specialist service use by Polish migrants in England.

Background: Polish people are the biggest migrant group in the UK and the scholarship shows that they are attentive to their healthcare needs and seek to fulfil them by using various services both within and outside the British public healthcare system. This article explores the role of junctures within healthcare systems in the connections migrants realize between healthcare systems and sectors. The article argues that in a transnational context, migrants enact these junctures by joining different levels of care within the same sector, between sectors and across national borders.

Diagnostic testing: therapeutic mobilities, social fields, and medical encounters in the transnational healthcare practices of Polish migrants in the UK.

While diagnostic tests are a fundamental component of contemporary medical practice they are seldom considered in studies of transnational healthcare. This article investigates the little-studied role played by diagnostic testing in the healthcare-seeking practices of migrants. It is concerned with the experiences of Polish migrants living in the UK and who access a variety of health services in their host and origin countries across the public and private sectors.

Psychopathology and weapon choice: a study of 103 perpetrators of homicide or attempted homicide.

The aim of this study was to ascertain if a relationship between weapon choice and psychopathology existed. The perpetrators (103) were evaluated at the Department of Criminology and Forensic Psychiatry of the University of Bari in southern Italy. Psychiatric examination and psycho-diagnostic tests were administered for each of the perpetrators and a database was subsequently formulated.

Epidermal growth factor receptor serum levels and prognostic value in malignant gliomas.

Aims And Background: The epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) is a member of a family of cell membrane receptors that use tyrosine kinase activity as the signal transduction mechanism. It is commonly expressed or overexpressed by many solid tumors and correlates with disease progression and a poor clinical prognosis. Increased EGFR expression might therefore be a strong prognostic feature in multiple tumor types, and inhibition of its cellular actions may have substantial therapeutic benefit.

Microsurgical approaches to the medial temporal region: an anatomical study.

Objective: To describe the surgical anatomy of the anterior, middle, and posterior portions of the medial temporal region and to present an anatomic-based classification of the approaches to this area.

Methods: Twenty formalin-fixed, adult cadaveric specimens were studied. Ten brains provided measurements to compare different surgical strategies.

Association of a wide invasive malignant thymoma with myastenia gravis and primary hyperparathyroidism due to parathyroid adenoma: case report and review of the literature.

There are few cases described in the world literature reporting an association of thymoma (with myasthenia gravis or not) with hyperparathyroidism. In these cases the hyperparathyroidism was due to the presence of an adenoma or hyperplasic parathyroid tissue either in the cervical region or in an ectopic intrathymic location.(12345) In other cases the syndrome of hypercalcemia was due to the secretion of parathyroid-related protein (PTHRP) (6) or parathyroid hormone (PTH) (7) by the thymoma itself.

[Epileptic disease and fitness for specific jobs involving driving motor vehicles].

Objective: Analysis of the problems the occupational health physician meets in health surveillance of workers with a clinical history of epilepsy, in order to assess fitness for specific jobs requiring driving of motor vehicles.

Methods: A health protocol was used which required acquisition of all information related to job features, work organization, past and current clinical-functional status of epilepsy and any treatment in progress.

Subjects: The cases of four workers with clinical history of epilepsy were examined who were judged to be representative both of the most frequent forms of epileptic disease and of jobs requiring driving of motor vehicles.

Growth fraction of myelocytes in normal human granulopoiesis.

The labelling index (LI) of myelocytes (M) after flash labelling of normal human bone marrow cells with [3H]-thymidine ([3H]TdR) is always lower that the LI obtained for myeloblasts (MB) and for promyelocytes (PM). This fact can be interpreted in two ways: it may mean that the duration of the G1 phase of the cell cycle is longer in M than in MB or PM, or it may mean that the proportion of cells in cycle, i.e.

Evaluation of non-stimulated nitroblue-tetrazolium test in patients with malignant lymphomas.

The NBT-test was performed in 54 patients with Hodgkin and non-Hodgkin lymphoma showing no bacterial infection exept for one case. 18 patients presented, at onset of the disease, a number of neutrophilic NBT-reducing granulocytes at pathological levels (greater than 12%). In order to evaluate the influence of cytostatic drugs on NBT-test serial blood samples were taken during polychemotherapy in 17 patients with lymphoma.

Adenosine deaminase activity in acute lymphoblastic leukaemia: cytochemical, immunological and clinical correlations.

Adenosine deaminase (ADA) activity has been assessed in lymphoid cells of 23 patients with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL) in order to attempt a further characterization of ALL cells in addition to the well known cytochemical and immunological T and B lymphoid cell markers. ADA activity did not show any correlation with the immunological characterization of the patients investigated; in fact a wide range of ADA activity was observed with levels ranging from 0 to 32 U in T-ALL patients and nearly similar values (from 1.8 to 36 U) in the group of non T--non B ALL cases.

Mast cell leukemia and acute basophilic leukemia. Cytochemical studies.

Human mast cells and basophil granulocytes can be easily recognized in normal tissues by light microscopy. In one mast cell and one basophilic leukemic case considered in this study, mast cells and basophils were morphologically quite similar and could not therefore be clearly defined merely by their morphological features. Both types of cells showed round nuclei and deep purple granules.

Cytochemical "normal" and "abnormal" eosinophils in acute leukemias.

Eosinophilic leukocytes may accompany a great variety of disorders and different types of acute leukemias. The most striking morphologic feature of eosinophils is their specific granules, but morphology alone often is insufficient to differentiate normal from abnormal eosinophils. Cytochemically, the eosinophils were considered "normal" when they did not contain alkaline phosphatase, chloroacetate esterase, toluidine blue metachromasia, Astra blue positivity, and specific PAS-positive granules, but did have peroxidase and cyanide-resistant peroxidase activities, Sudan black positivity and moderate naphthol-AS esterase or alpha-naphthyl esterase and acid phosphatase positivities.

Cytochemical study of acute promyelocytic leukaemia.

Five cases of acute promyelocytic leukaemia (A.P.L.