Five patients with an autosomally recessively transmitted distal myopathy were investigated. Of these, three belonged to a single sibship. Studies included electromyography, histological examination of muscle tissue, histochemical, electron microscopical, and biochemical analyses. One of the cases resembled the Nonaka form while the others were regarded as expressions of the commoner variety of...

A vitrectomy specimen obtained with the roto-extractor from a diabetic patient with vitreous haemorrhage revealed fungal endophthalmitis on microscopical examination. Endophthalmitis was not suspected before the procedure. Extensive medical examinations failed to reveal any evidence of systemic fungal disease. The case exemplifies endogenous mycotic endophthalmitis of occult origin, the first o...

Microscopy and phytochemical screening of the leaves of Pandanus candelabrum were studied. Microscopical examination of the leaves showed paracytic stomata which are more numerous on the lower surface with prisms of calcium oxalate cystals. Preliminary phytochemical screening of the 80 % ethanol extract of the leaves revealed the presence of anthraquinones, saponins and traces of tannins and al...

For the purpose of immunological study of Trichomonas vaginalis infestation in man, methods were required for the simultaneous isolation of organisms and for the collection of material which might contain antibodies against the organisms. The present paper describes the method developed for females and relates it to the usual routine method for diagnosis of this infection, by microscopical exam...

In a parasitological study carried out in November 1994 the parasitic nematode Capillaria garfiai (Trichuridae: Capillariinae) was found lying in the lingual epithelium of a wild boar in Catalonia, northeast of Spain. The histological examination carried out showed no microscopical pathological changes in the parasitized tissue.

During lichenicolous fungal studies in India, lichen genus Ochrolechia was found infected with a black lirellate fungus. Critical microscopical examination of the fungus revealed that it is new species Labrocarpon , which differs from L. canariense having narrow exciple (15.0–20.0 µm vs 20.0–50.0 thick), 4-spored asci, 1-septate to submuriform, constricted ascospores larger l/w value [(2.5–)2.9...

Three patients who initially presented to the ophthalmologist with a history of gradual deterioration of visual acuity showed, on biomicroscopic examination, a linear meshwork of opacities in the vitreous attached to the posterior surface of the lens in the form of pseudopodia lentis. Amyloidosis of the vitreous associated with systemic amyloid disease was diagnosed because of the characteristi...