Distribution of beta-human chorionic gonadotropin-positive cells in noncancerous gastric mucosa and in malignant gastric tumors.
The authors examined the localization and behavior of beta-human chorionic gonadotropin (HCG)-positive cells in human gastric noncancerous mucosa and in gastric malignant tumors, using immunohistochemistry and the anti-beta-HCG antibody. The beta-HCG-positive cells were located mainly in the antral mucosa and were generally restricted to the neck portion of the pyloric glands, although a few were present in fundic glands of the gastric body. The beta-HCG-immunoreactive cells were found in gastric carcinomas in 53% of the 92 cases examined. These cells were observed more often in advanced carcinomas that were histologically poorly differentiated than in early carcinomas or in well-differentiated tumors, but this prevalence had no statistical significance. The presence of the beta-HCG-positive cells in the gastric carcinomas suggested no appreciable prognostic significance, even quantitatively. In the syncytiotrophoblast-like tumor cells seen in four gastric tumor samples with histologic features of a choriocarcinoma, immunoreactivity to the beta-HCG was striking. There was, however, no recognizable dominance in the number of beta-HCG-reactive cells in the noncancerous mucosa around the tumor.
Second Department of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan.
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D000230:Adenocarcinoma / Q000032:analysis; D002822:Choriocarcinoma / Q000032:analysis; D006063:Chorionic Gonadotropin / Q000032:analysis*; D018997:Chorionic Gonadotropin, beta Subunit, Human; D003593:Cytoplasm / Q000032:analysis; D005260:Female; D005748:Gastric Fundus / Q000032:analysis; D005753:Gastric Mucosa / Q000032:analysis* / Q000166:cytology; D006801:Humans; D007150:Immunohistochemistry; D008297:Male; D010446:Peptide Fragments / Q000032:analysis*; D011706:Pyloric Antrum / Q000032:analysis; D012016:Reference Values; D013274:Stomach Neoplasms / Q000032:analysis* / Q000473:pathology
D006063:Chorionic Gonadotropin; D018997:Chorionic Gonadotropin, beta Subunit, Human; D010446:Peptide Fragments