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The distribution of vimentin and keratin in epithelial and nonepithelial neoplasms. A comprehensive immunohistochemical study on formalin- and alcohol-fixed tumors.

Abstract：

:Vimentin has been regarded as the intermediate filament characteristic of normal and neoplastic mesenchymal cells and keratins as typical of epithelial cells and the neoplasms derived from them. However, many epithelial cells in tissue culture or in effusion, as well as cells in some solid epithelial neoplasms such as renal, endometrial, ovarian, pulmonary, and thyroid adenocarcinomas, have been shown to coexpress vimentin and keratin. The recent availability of monoclonal antibodies that work reasonably well in paraffin-embedded tissue led us to carry out a comprehensive immunohistochemical study on formalin- and alcohol-fixed specimens of neoplasms in which we used monoclonal antibodies against vimentin. These results were compared with our previous study in which the same tumor tissues were investigated using antibodies against keratin. The antigenicity of vimentin was found to be preserved in all alcohol-fixed specimens and in 63% of formalin-fixed tissues. Vimentin was the sole intermediate filament present in virtually all sarcomas, meningiomas, schwannomas, and melanomas. In addition, variable percentages (10-57%) of carcinomas, neuroendocrine carcinomas, neuroblastomas, thymomas, and mesotheliomas were positive for vimentin, which, except in the neuroblastomas, was coexpressed with keratins. Among the adenocarcinomas, more than 50% of papillary carcinomas of the thyroid, as well as renal, endometrial, ovarian, and lung carcinomas, coexpressed keratins and vimentin. A distinctive paranuclear and basal localization of vimentin was observed in the cells of many of these tumors, in contrast to the predominantly apical distribution of the keratins. The authors conclude that coexpression of vimentin and keratin is more widespread than previously reported and that antibodies to vimentin, by themselves, are of limited value for the differentiation of epithelial from mesenchymal neoplasms.

journal_name

Am J Clin Pathol

journal_title

American journal of clinical pathology

authors

Azumi N,Battifora H

doi

10.1093/ajcp/88.3.286

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1987-09-01 00:00:00

pages

286-96

issue

eissn

0002-9173

issn

1943-7722

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The distribution of vimentin and keratin in epithelial and nonepithelial neoplasms. A comprehensive immunohistochemical study on formalin- and alcohol-fixed tumors.