Histopathological and immunohistochemical aspects in both basaloid and spindle cell variant of cervical carcinoma

Vol. 47 No. 1, 2006

ROMANIAN JOURNAL of MORPHOLOGY and EMBRYOLOGY

Daniela Drîgnei-Veselu, Cristiana Simionescu, Claudia Valentina Georgescu, Fl. Bogdan

The study was performed by using a number of eight cases of cervical carcinomas suiting to basaloid carcinomas and spindle cell carcinomas under the circumstances of usual histopathological staining. Immunohistochemically we used anticytokeratin monoclonal antibody (AE1/AE3) to confirm the epithelial differentiation and also PCNA to evaluate the cell proliferation rate. Tumor positiveness for AE1/AE3 cytokeratin cocktail confirmed its epithelial nature. Immunoexpression for PCNA indicated a high index of cell proliferation for all the cases with a more increased value for the basaloid carcinomas.

Corresponding author: Daniela Drîgnei-Veselu, MD, PhD, e-mail: dana_drignei@yahoo.com

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