“Images from the Medical Laboratory” – editorial remarks
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Peter Schuff-Werner
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Ralf Lichtinghagen
In several medical journals patients’ case reports are often communicated by clinical images accompanied by a short comment, updating the recent knowledge and literature of the presented subject.
Pathological results from the clinical diagnostic laboratory are usually reported as numeric results and/or short commentaries. Images such as histo- or diagrams and blots are relatively common, whereas colour changes, inclusions such as cristalls, malformated granules, cellular changes in shape and size or unusual cellular inclusions, visualisation of genetic tests such as FISH and other examples of improved diagnostic techniques are also worth to be published.
In this issue of the Journal of Laboratory Medicine we start with an impressive illustration of clarithromycin-induced crystalluria with needle-shaped crystals after a single intravenous dose of clarithromycin.
Image information are eye-catching and generate receptive attention: it therefore has great educational potential. It creates a kind of cognitive shortcut, as visual information is processed directly and more quickly by the brain.
Therefore, we decided to introduce this new category of short communications illustrating rare laboratory findings, to encourage our readers to submit own images complemented by a short comment.
Prof. Dr. med. Peter Schuff-Werner, Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Ralf Lichtinghagen
Editors-in-Chief
Journal of Laboratory Medicine
© 2024 the author(s), published by De Gruyter, Berlin/Boston
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Editorial
- “Images from the Medical Laboratory” – editorial remarks
- Review
- Advances and challenges in platelet counting: evolving from traditional microscopy to modern flow cytometry
- Original Articles
- Comparison of two different technologies measuring the same analytes in view of the In Vitro Diagnostic Regulation (IVDR)
- Assessing the stability of uncentrifuged serum and plasma analytes at various post-collection intervals
- Evaluation of different needle gauge blood collection sets (23G/25G) in aged patients
- The trend of Epstein-Barr virus DNA loads and CD8+ T lymphocyte numbers can predict the prognosis of pediatric liver transplant recipients with PTLD
- Preoperative serum glutathione reductase activity and alpha-fetoprotein level are associated with early postoperative recurrence of hepatocellular carcinoma
- Short Communication
- Comparison between detection power of MBT STAR-Carba test and KBM CIM Tris II for carbapenemase-producing bacteria
- Images from the Medical Laboratory
- Clarithromycin crystalluria
Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Editorial
- “Images from the Medical Laboratory” – editorial remarks
- Review
- Advances and challenges in platelet counting: evolving from traditional microscopy to modern flow cytometry
- Original Articles
- Comparison of two different technologies measuring the same analytes in view of the In Vitro Diagnostic Regulation (IVDR)
- Assessing the stability of uncentrifuged serum and plasma analytes at various post-collection intervals
- Evaluation of different needle gauge blood collection sets (23G/25G) in aged patients
- The trend of Epstein-Barr virus DNA loads and CD8+ T lymphocyte numbers can predict the prognosis of pediatric liver transplant recipients with PTLD
- Preoperative serum glutathione reductase activity and alpha-fetoprotein level are associated with early postoperative recurrence of hepatocellular carcinoma
- Short Communication
- Comparison between detection power of MBT STAR-Carba test and KBM CIM Tris II for carbapenemase-producing bacteria
- Images from the Medical Laboratory
- Clarithromycin crystalluria
