Sialosyl-TN

Diagnostic utility

Stains adenocarcinoma more frequently than mesothelioma

	adenocarcinoma	mesotheioma
Dejmek 19971	34/43	24/110
Brockstedt 20002	46/57	28/119
Overall	80% (80/100)	24% (56/229)

References

1Dejmek, A., Brockstedt, U., Hjerpe, A. Optimization of a battery using nine immunocytochemical variables for distinguishing between epithelial mesothelioma and adenocarcinoma. Apmis 1997;105:889-94.

2Brockstedt U, Gulyas M, Dobra K. An optimized batter of eight antibodies that can distingusih most cases of epithelial mesothelioma from adenocarcinoma. Am J Clin Pathol 2000;114:203-9

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