Immunogistochemical Studies with Carcinoembryonic Antigen in Various Tumors of Skin.
- Author:
Soo Gyoung HUR
;
Young Ho WON
;
Inn Ki CHUN
;
Young Pio KIM
- Publication Type:Original Article
- Keywords:
Biotin-avidin system;
CEA
- MeSH:
Breast Neoplasms;
Carcinoembryonic Antigen*;
Diagnosis;
Diagnosis, Differential;
Hamartoma;
Maxillary Sinus;
Neuroectodermal Tumors;
Paget's Disease, Mammary;
Sebaceous Glands;
Skin Neoplasms;
Skin*;
Sweat Glands
- From:Korean Journal of Dermatology
1990;28(6):722-729
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
-
Abstract:
We performed an immunohistochemical study, using bioti-navidin system to clarify the pattern of carcinoembryonic antigen(CEA)immunoreactivity in various tumors of the skin, according to its histogenetic origin. Positive reaction was observed in syringorna, eccrine spiradenoma, eccrine angiomatous hamartoma, eccrine carcinoma, syringocystadenoma papilliferum, metastatic breast carcinoma and mammary Pagets disease. But in epithelial tumors, metastatic skin cancer from maxillary sinus, tumors derived from pilar and sebaceous gland structure, mesenchymal tumors and neuroectodermal tumors, CEA was not observed. These results suggest that immunohistochemical study for CEA could be used as an adjunct for the differential diagnosis of sweat gland tumors from others, especially pilar structure and sebaceous-gland-derived tumors, for the detection of the histogenesis of metastatic tumors, and for the diagnosis of Pagets clisease.
