Carnitine Blood Level, an Important, But Forgotten Lab Test
Carnitine is a naturally occurring amino acid derivative. Serum Carnitine Deficiency (SCD) incidence is 1:37,000 newborns….
(CD4/CD8 ratio in bronchioalveolar lavage (by immunohistochemistry
Introduction: Lymphocytosis in BAL specimen can be seen in variety of interstitial lung diseases, and can…
Chromogranin A, a new and important tumor marker
Chromogranin A: belongs to a family of secretory proteins that are present in dense-core vesicles of…
Cytogenetics of leukemias
Introduction: Cytogenetics of leukemia is extremely important today for the best diagnosis, treatment and prognosis of…
Degenerative Brain Disease Panel
Introduction : patient with degenerative brain disease may present with brain atrophy, mental retardation (usually progressive),…
Detecting CMV in tissue sections
Cytomegalovirus infection (CMV) is fairly common in Immunocompromised patients. Typical CMV inclusions detect only 20% of…
Detecting source of carcinoma of unknown primary
Breast carcinoma, lung carcinoma and thyroid carcinoma are one of the most common sources of unknown…
Diabetes Mellitus (DM) Type I and Autoantibodies
Making a diagnosis of Type I DM is of paramount importance as early as possible to…
Diagnosis of Muscle Diseases
Muscle biopsy: Muscular dystrophies, myopathies , mitochondria disease , neurogenic: disorders and inflammatory myopathy Routine…
EBV virus antibodies
Epstein Barr virus is a DNA virus that infects mostly young children and adolescence. But is…