An immunohistologic study of the epithelial components of 81 cases of thymoma.

doi:10.1002/1097-0142(19920515)69:10<2463::aid-cncr2820691014>3.0.co;2-g

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An immunohistologic study of the epithelial components of 81 cases of thymoma.

Cancer - 15 May 1992

Fukai I, Masaoka A, Hashimoto T, Yamakawa Y, Mizuno T, Tanamura O, Hirokawa K, Ueda R

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Eighty-one cases of thymoma were studied immunohistologically with the use of three mouse monoclonal antibodies: one was specific for subcapsular-cortical, one for intra-cortical, and one for medullary epithelial cells. Twenty-eight (60.9%) of 46 polygonal cell thymomas were of the cortical type...

Topics

Adult
Aged
Antigens, Differentiation
CD57 Antigens
Epithelium
Female
Humans
Immunoenzyme Techniques
Male
Middle Aged
Myasthenia Gravis
Phenotype
Thymoma
Thymus Neoplasms

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