{"title":"Evaluation of membranous staining of mesothelioma.","authors":"J A King, J A Tucker","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Panels of immunohistochemical markers are often used to aid in categorizing malignant neoplasms involving the pleura. While epithelial membrane antigen (EMA) and human milk fat globule-2 (HMFG-2) are each reported to stain the majority of cases of adenocarcinoma and mesothelioma, authors have reported that the pattern of staining for these two antibodies can be a useful discriminant. Both are described as revealing a membranous pattern of staining for mesothelioma and a cytoplasmic staining pattern in adenocarcinoma. Immunostains were performed on 23 cases of malignant mesothelioma and 22 cases of adenocarcinoma. For EMA, 78% of mesotheliomas and 86% of adenocarcinomas stained positively, and 65% of mesotheliomas vs. 14% of adenocarcinomas exhibited a membranous staining pattern. For HMFG-2, 9% of mesotheliomas and 50% of adenocarcinomas stained positively, and 4% of mesotheliomas vs. 9% of adenocarcinomas exhibited a membranous staining pattern. Membranous staining for HMFG-2 was not a useful criterion. In this series, a membranous pattern of staining for EMA had a sensitivity of 65% and a specificity of 86% for the identification of malignant mesothelioma.</p>","PeriodicalId":79574,"journal":{"name":"Cell vision : the journal of analytical morphology","volume":"5 1","pages":"24-7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20578035","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Applications of tissue microdissection in cancer genetics.","authors":"Z Zhuang, A O Vortmeyer","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A major obstacle to apply molecular biologic techniques effectively to the somatic genetic analysis of neoplastic tissue is the presence of abundant nonneoplastic elements in the analyzed specimen. These nonneoplastic elements, including reactive fibrous cells, vascular cells, and a variety of infiltrating white blood cells, may mask genetic alterations that otherwise would be easily detectable if the neoplastic cells were procured selectively. We have developed a microdissection technique which allows to selectively procure and genetically analyze small populations of neoplastic cells from the glass slide. In this report, we describe the microdissection technique and genetic analysis of archival frozen and paraffin-embedded tissue in general. Then, we review some implications of this approach of genetic analysis for mapping and cloning of new genes, identification of premalignant lesions, and differential analysis of different histologic components within the same tumor.</p>","PeriodicalId":79574,"journal":{"name":"Cell vision : the journal of analytical morphology","volume":"5 1","pages":"43-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20578039","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}