Colon specific antigen

So-called colon specific antigen is a glycoprotein related to CEA. It lackes spcificity. Very little has been published on this antigen in the last ten years.

Immunohistochemical expression

Colonic carcinoma

18/25¹

Pulmonary carcinomas

15/35¹

Breast: ductal carcinoma

27/119¹

Breast: lobular carcinoma

1/10¹

Gastric carcinomas

13/39¹

Colonic carcinoma

Pancreatic carcinoma

8/26¹

Ovarian carcinoma

10/29¹

Renal carcinomas

0/45¹

Diagnostic utility

Probably none.

References

¹Kaufmann, O., T. Deidesheimer, et al. (1996). "Immunohistochemical differentiation of metastatic breast carcinomas from metastatic adenocarcinomas of other common primary sites." Histopathology 29(3): 233-40.

This page last revised 25.9.2004.

	Colonic carcinoma	18/25¹
	Pulmonary carcinomas	15/35¹
	Breast: ductal carcinoma	27/119¹
	Breast: lobular carcinoma	1/10¹
	Gastric carcinomas	13/39¹
	Colonic carcinoma
	Pancreatic carcinoma	8/26¹
	Ovarian carcinoma	10/29¹
	Renal carcinomas	0/45¹