Mtc. Barber et al., TISSUE-CEA IN COLORECTAL CARCINOMAS - AN IMMUNOHISTOCHEMICAL STUDY, Revista espanola de enfermedades digestivas, 83(4), 1993, pp. 241-247
We carried out a CEA immunohistochemical study on 80 colorectal carcin
omas, using the PAP methodology. Also we studied peritumoral <<normal>
> mucosa on 69 cases. All tumoral (80/80) and the major part of normal
colonic mucosa (68/69) cases stained positively. We present our exper
ience with this immunohistochemical staining using a qualitative semiq
uantitative evaluation, as an easy and reliable procedure. This permit
s to obtain, by immunostaining, a better homogeneous group of tumours
(Apical, Mixed and Cytoplasmic, or Weak and Strong), necessary to furt
her correlation with various tumoral parameters. On the basis of this
evaluation, we found: A staining of weak intensity (65/68) of Apical t
ype (55/68) in the vast majority of the normal, peritumoral mucosa. In
tumors we found a prevalence of strong intensity (67/80), in relation
to its major content of CEA. With respect to the type of immunostaini
ng, although Apical staining (32/80) exists the Cytoplasmic (34/80) is
predominant together with the Myxed type (14/80). This is expression
of the alterations in secretion and distribution of the tissue CEA. We
analyze the difficulties of such classification caused by the tumoral
heterogeneity and we include other data whose significance is not alw
ays clear.