Cytokeratin 18

Immunohistochemical expression

• ubiquitous in simple and pseudostratified epithelia

• fetal fibroblasts

• myometrium

• fetal myocardium

• vascular smooth muscle and endothelium

• some reticulum cells of lymphatic organs

• carcinomas

• neoplastic plasma cells

• CD30-positive lymphomas

• some leiomyosarcomas

• epithelioid haemangioendotheliomas

• epithelioid angiosarcomas

• PNET/Ewing's sarcoma

• malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumours

• clear cell sarcomas

References

Diagnostic Immunohistochemistry edited by Professor D. J. Dabbs, page 61.

This page last revised 14.12.2001.

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