Colon specific antigen

So-called colon specific antigen is a glycoprotein related to CEA. It lackes specificity. Very little has been published on this antigen in the last ten years.

Immunohistochemical expression

	Colonic carcinoma	18/251
	Pulmonary carcinomas	15/351
	Breast: ductal carcinoma	27/1191
	Breast: lobular carcinoma	1/101
	Gastric carcinomas	13/391
	Colonic carcinoma
	Pancreatic carcinoma	8/261
	Ovarian carcinoma	10/291
	Renal carcinomas	0/451

Diagnostic utility

Probably none.

References

1Kaufmann, O., T. Deidesheimer, et al. (1996). "Immunohistochemical differentiation of metastatic breast carcinomas from metastatic adenocarcinomas of other common primary sites." Histopathology 29(3): 233-40.

This page last revised 25.9.2004.

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