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https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/40480| Title: | The pitfalls of immunohistochemistry |
| Authors: | Cilia Vincenti, Albert |
| Keywords: | Medicine -- Anecdotes Immunohistochemistry Lymphomas -- Treatment |
| Issue Date: | 2018 |
| Publisher: | Medical Portals Ltd. |
| Citation: | Cilia Vincenti, A. (2018). The pitfalls of immunohistochemistry. The Synapse : the Medical Professionals' Network, 17(5), 12. |
| Abstract: | This is 1996. I had returned to a consultant histopathologist’s post at St Luke’s Hospital the year before, and had become acquainted socially with a Maltese commercial lawyer and his ex-pat wife. Shortly afterwards, he informed me that his wife hasn’t been well and that Dr Mario Vassallo had just performed a private gastroscopy, was worried she had something serious and whether I would mind looking at the biopsy material. Mario Vassallo found a large gastric ulcer with rolled edges, practically diagnostic of a carcinoma. Fortunately the histology showed a low grade lymphoma of “mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue” (MALT) type, which carried a far better prognosis. |
| URI: | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar//handle/123456789/40480 |
| Appears in Collections: | The Synapse, Volume 17, Issue 5 The Synapse, Volume 17, Issue 5 |
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