C. H. Buckley

BACKGROUND: The natural history of ovarian cancer is not well understood and, to date, there is conflicting evidence as to whether or not there is a demonstrable precursor lesion. Some women at high risk of developing ovarian cancer because…

Nucleolar organiser regions (NORs) can be visualised by a silver stain that shows NOR-associated proteins as black intranuclear dots (AgNORs). NORs are loops of DNA that transcribe to ribosomal RNA, and the number of AgNORs is thought to re…

The incidence of tubal inflammatory disease in women with endometriosis who had undergone surgery was compared with that in women who had undergone similar operative procedures but who did not have endometriosis and with that in a group of …

A study of the immunoglobulin content of endometria from women with and without endometriosis has shown that, in women with endometriosis, both IgG and IgA are more commonly found in the interstitium of the endometrial stroma than is the ca…

An immunohistochemical study of the tissue CEA content of 82 epithelial neoplasms of the ovary has shown that mucinous tumours contain more of this substance than do their serous counterparts; otherwise a knowledge of tissue CEA content app…