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Books


  • Pathological Bodies - An A to Z Pocket Handbook (Text only). Available on Amazon as  paperback and eBook (2020)
  • Pathological Bodies - The Complete A to Z Colour Atlas (Text and Images). Available on Amazon as paperback (2020)
  • Dead as a Doornail. Crime thriller - Available on Amazon as paperback and eBook (2020)
  • Tissue Processing - From Patient to Pathologist. Available on Amazon as paperback (2021)
  • From Paradise to Powys - The Story of CellPath Limited. Available on Amazon (2022)
 
​​       Journal publications​​


  • Demonstration of papillomavirus structural antigen in human urinary bladder neoplasia. Bryant P, Skelly J & Wilson D. British Journal of Urology 1987;60:405-409
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  • Detection of human papillomavirus DNA in cancer of the urinary bladder by in situ hybridization. Bryant P, Davies P & Wilson D. British Journal of Urology 1991;68:49-52
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  • Detection, identification and typing of the human papillomavirus in infections of the cervix. Bryant P.  American Society of Clinical Pathologists, 1999; Tech Sample HT-1 ​
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  • Issues about tissues - Part 1: The objectives of histopathology. Bryant P.  Journal of Histotechnology 2005;28:63-66
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  • Issues about tissues -  Part 2: Sampling in the laboratory. ​Bryant P.  Journal of Histotechnology 2005;28:181-182
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  • Issues about tissues - Part 3: Sampling outside the laboratory. Bryant P.  Journal of Histotechnology 2006;29:81-87            
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  • Effectiveness of honey as a substitute for formalin in the histological fixation of tissue.  Al-Maaini R & Bryant P.  Journal of Histotechnology 2006;29:173-176
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  • Honey as an alternative to formalin in demonstration of connective tissue components.  Al-Maaini R & Bryant P.  Journal of Histotechnology 2008;31:67-72
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  • Immunocytochemical evaluation of ductal carcinoma in breast after preservation in honey. Gunter M & Bryant P.  Journal of Histotechnology 2009;32:54-59
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  • Application of large format tissue processing in the histology laboratory. Bryant P; Haine N; Johnston J & Ntiamoah P. Journal of Histotechnology 2019;42(3):150-162. Published online June 2019 at https://doi.org/10.1080/01478885.2019.1628425
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       Pathology blogs


  • ​Honey as a substitute for formalin 
  • Bladder cancer and the White House 
  • Asbestos: The hidden assassin 
  • Histology and the human plague 
  • All you need to know about formaldehyde 
  • Lean and learn: Efficiency in the laboratory 
  • Cervical cancer and the president's wife
  • Diagnostic errors in pathology
  • Oral cancer and the distinguished doctor 
  • A brief history of tissue processing
  • Lyme disease     
  • Tumour sampling and large format histology
  • Whole slide imaging 
  • Renal transplantation and the parasite 
  • The cervical screening programme 
  • Tumour pathology 
  • Disease in the aftermath of 9/11 
  • Cancer clusters of ocular melanoma
  • Urine as a liquid biopsy
  • Gluten or gluten-free? 
  • Large format histology: Why thinner is better  
  • Social media in pathology ​
  • Charles Darwin and the kissing bug 
  • Aftermath of the Joplin tornado 
  • Diet, DIY and prevention of cervical cancer 
  • The perils of anthrax 
  • Whole mount histology
  • A to Z of staining – A is for Auramine 
  • A to Z of staining – B is for Bluing
  • A to Z of staining – C is for Carbol Fuchsin
  • A to Z of staining – D is for DPX
  • A to Z of staining – E is for Eosin
  • A to Z of staining – F is for Fontana-Masson
  • A to Z of staining – G is for Gram stain
  • A to Z of staining – H is for Haematoxylin
  • A to Z of staining –  I is for Iodine  
  • A to Z of staining – J is for Janus Green
  • A to Z of staining – K is for Kinyoun stain 
  • A to Z of staining – L is for Luxol Fast Blue 
  • A to Z of staining – M is for Methyl Green
  • A to Z of staining – N is for Negative Staining 
  • A to Z of staining – O is for Oil Red O 
  • A to Z of staining – P is for Papanicolaou 
  • A to Z of staining – Q is for Quik-Diff
  • A to Z of staining – R is for Reticulin
  • A to Z of staining – S is for Sirius Red
  • A to Z of staining – T is for Toluidine Blue
  • A to Z of staining – U is for Uranyl Acetate
  • A to Z of staining – V is for von Kossa
  • A to Z of staining – W is for Weigert stain
  • A to Z of staining – X is for XMark tissue dyes
       
        
International presentations

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  • ​​​​​Cancers and the human papillomavirus. First European Congress of Histotechnology, Amsterdam, November 1991​
  • Efficiency of retrieval of papillomavirus structural antigen in formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded cervical lesions. International Papillomavirus Workshop, Edinburgh, September 1992
  • Cancer and the papillomavirus.  National Society for Histotechnology (NSH) Symposium, Salt Lake City, Utah, September 1998
  • Alzheimer’s disease. NSH Symposium, Salt Lake City, Utah, September 1998
  • Combined Helicobacter pylori and human papillomavirus infection in diseases of the lower oesophagus. NSH Symposium, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, September 2000
  • Recognition and relevance of autoantibody patterns on tissue sections. NSH Symposium, Charlotte, North Carolina, September 2001 and NSH Symposium, Long Beach, California, September 2002
  • Cancer of the bladder. NSH Symposium, Louisville, Kentucky, October 2003
  • Issues about tissues - the objectives of histopathology. NSH Symposium, Toronto, Canada, September 2004
  • Cervical cancer. NSH Symposium, Toronto, Canada, September 2004
  • Cancer of the mouth. NSH Symposium, Phoenix, Arizona, September 2006
  • Honey as a substitute for formaldehyde. First International Conference of Biomedical Science, Gibraltar, May 2007 and NSH Symposium, Denver, Colorado, October 2007
  • Cancer by infection. NSH Symposium, Denver, Colorado, October 2007
  • Understanding pathology. NSH Symposium, Denver, Colorado, October 2007
  • Pathology of disease - from basics to beyond. NSH Symposium, Seattle, Washington, September 2010
  • A histological compendium of bodies. NSH Symposium, Vancouver, Canada, September 2012 and NSH Symposium, Providence, Rhode Island, September 2013
  • All you need to know about formalin in one quick fix! NSH Symposium, Providence, Rhode Island, September 2013
  • Cancer by inhalation - the dangers of asbestos. NSH Symposium, Washington DC, August 2015
  • From microbe to microscope - histology of infectious agents. NSH Symposium, Washington DC, August 2015
  • Cancer by inhalation - the dangers of asbestos. Thermo Fisher Scientific guest speaker: Edinburgh, Scotland, March 2016; Brussels, Belgium, June 2016; ​Utrecht, Netherlands, June 2016 and Birmingham, October 2016
  • From meat to microscope - Going LEAN in histology. Thermo Fisher Scientific guest speaker: London, November 2016
  • From microbe to microscope - histology of infectious agents. NSH Symposium, Long Beach, California, September 2016
  • The use of large format cassettes in the routine diagnosis of clinical specimens. NSH Symposium, Orlando, Florida, September 2017. Also at:​ Texas state histology meeting, Plano, Dallas, April 2018; California state histology meeting, Anaheim, May 2018; Minnesota, Iowa and Wisconsin Tristate histology meeting, Madison, May 2018
  • Large format histology - Why bigger is better! NSH Symposium, St Louis, Missouri, September 2018 and NSH Symposium, New Orleans, Louisiana, September 2019
  • Liquid biopsies - Are they the future in diagnostic medicine? NSH Symposium, New Orleans, Louisiana, September 2019
  • Large format histology - Why bigger is better! Bamberger Morphologietage, Bamberg, Germany, January 2020
  • Blunders and bloomers - The curse of laboratory errors. Illinois Society of Histotechnology Virtual Symposium, May 2021
  • Bigger is better! Developments in large format tissue processing. NSH Virtual Symposium, September 2021
  • Large format histology - Why bigger is better! ​ NSH Symposium, Reno, Nevada, October 2022
  • Large format histology - Why bigger is better! ​ NSH Symposium, Baltimore, Maryland, September 2023
  • Larger than life - Emerging perspectives of whole mount histology. NSH Symposium, Long Beach, California, September 2025
 
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