title: Argyrophilic proteins of nucleolar organizer regions (AgNORs) in fallopian tube carcinomas.
abstract: Forty-four patients diagnosed with primary cancer of the fallopian tube (PFTC) were analyzed with regard to AgNORs expression, morphological classification, clinical stage and survival rate. Twenty-seven patients were FIGO stage I, 7 FIGO II and 10 FIGO III. Histological classification of PFTC revealed 18 endometrioid types, 9 serous, 7 undifferentiated, 6 urothelial, 2 clear cell and 2 another type of (intestinal, squamous cell) cancer. Histological grading revealed 11 G1, 16 G2 and 17 G3 tumors. The number of AgNORs per nucleus ranged from 1 to 7, mean 2.54+/-0.77. The smallest number of silver stained NORs was observed in the endometrioid type (mean 2.32+/-0.62) and the biggest number of AgNORs in undifferentiated carcinoma (mean 3.05+/-0.82). There was no correlation between number of AgNORs and AgNOR area/nuclear area ratio and survival (p=0.71), histological stage or histological type of PFTC. There was a correlation between the number of AgNORs among tumors with histological grade 1 and grade 3 (p=0.023), and grade 2 and grade 3 (p=0.045). However, there was no correlation between AgNOR number and survival rate in these groups.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathological Anatony, Medical University of Wrocław, Poland.
authors.forename: J K
authors.initials: JK
authors.lastname: Rabczyńiski
authors.forename: A T
authors.initials: AT
authors.lastname: Kochman
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Karmowski
authors.forename: Z M
authors.initials: ZM
authors.lastname: Woźniak
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Bronowicz
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Terpiłowski
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002277:Carcinoma / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000401:mortality* / Q000473:pathology; D005185:Fallopian Tube Neoplasms / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000401:mortality* / Q000473:pathology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D009363:Neoplasm Proteins / Q000378:metabolism*; D009367:Neoplasm Staging; D009697:Nucleolus Organizer Region / Q000378:metabolism*; D011044:Poland / Q000453:epidemiology; D016622:Silver Staining; D016019:Survival Analysis
chemical_list: D009363:Neoplasm Proteins