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| Title: | Expression of the estrogen receptor β in 37 surgically treated pulmonary sclerosing hemangiomas in comparison with non-small cell lung carcinomas |
| Authors: | Wu, Chen-Tu;Chang, Yih-Leong;Lee, Yung-Chie |
| Contributors: | National Taiwan University Coll Med |
| Keywords: | Sclerosing hemangioma;Lung;Estrogen receptor α and β |
| Date: | 2005 |
| Issue Date: | 2006-11-15 |
| Abstract: | Sclerosing hemangioma (SH) of the lung is an uncommon tumor with a predilection for
middle-aged women. This special phenomenon prompted us to examine SH for the expression of ERα
(human estrogen receptor) and ERβ (a second isoform of estrogen receptor). To investigate the staining
pattern of these tumors, we also stained lung tissues from patients with non–small cell lung carcinomas
and nonneoplastic type II pneumocytes for comparison. Thirty-seven pulmonary SHs and 301 non–
small cell lung cancers specimens were explored. Expression of ERα and ERβ was immunohistochemi-cally
measured. The overall frequency of overexpression for ERβ was 91.9%. It was detected in both
female (in 91.4% of 35 cases) and male (in 100.0% of 2 tumors from men) patients. There was ERβ
overexpression in all 9 tumors of solid pattern, 6 of 7 tumors of papillary pattern, all 4 tumors of
sclerotic pattern, 12 of 13 tumors of hemorrhagic pattern, and 3 of 4 tumors of mixed pattern. The
staining pattern of the neoplastic cells of the SH was similar to that of type II pneumocytes adjacent to
the tumor rather than that of non–small cell lung cancers, in which the frequency of ERβ overexpression
was 45.8%. However, there was no ERα detectable in these neoplasms. Estrogen receptor
β overexpression is very frequent in pulmonary SHs, which is similar to that of alveolar cells but
quite different from non–small cell carcinoma. |
| Relation: | Human Pathology 36,1108-1112 |
| Appears in Collections: | [醫學院] 期刊論文
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