Ultrastructural,immunohistochemical and biochemical studies on amylase and ACTH producing lung cancer |
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Authors: | Yutaka Yoshida Michio Mori Tomoko Sonoda Fumio Sakauchi Hiroyuki Sugawara Akira Suzuki |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Pathology, Sapporo Medical College, Chuo-ku, 060 Sapporo, Japan;(2) Department of Internal Medicine Section 3, Sapporo Medical College, Chuo-ku, 060 Sapporo, Japan |
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Abstract: | Summary Tumour tissue from a lung cancer patient who showed elevated serum amylase and adrenocorticotropin (ACTH) was studied ultrastructurally, immunohistochemically and biochemically. Histologically the tumour was a small cell carcinoma. On electron microscopic examination the tumour cells contained large zymogen-like granules within the cytoplasm. Furthermore, cells which possessed many small dense core granules of the endocrine type were also observed. It was of interest that the large zymogen-like granule-containing tumour cells had microvilli at the apical border, connected by desmosomes and forming lumina showing adenocarcinomatous differentiation. Electrophoretic analysis of the serum revealed that the major elevated amylase was of the salivary type with minor components. Immunostaining clearly demonstrated that most of the tumour cells possessed immunoreactive ACTH, whereas salivary amylase was only found in occasional clusters of the tumour cells. The results seem to indicate that the tumour showed both endocrine and exocrine characteristics - an amphicrine carcinoma, expressing amylase and ACTH simultaneously. |
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Keywords: | Small cell carcinoma Amylase ACTH Ultrastructure Immunohistochemistry |
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