Progesterone receptor immunoreactivity in minute meningothelioid nodules of the lung.
Meningothelioid nodules (MNs) are not uncommon lesions of the pulmonary interstitium composed of monomorphic round to spindle cells, likely reactive in nature. Their origin is unsettled, though a derivation from arachnoid-like cells in conditions of perturbed perfusion of the pulmonary tissue has been proposed. Here we confirm the consistent occurrence of intense progesterone-receptor immunoreactivity in MNs fortuitously detected in surgical specimens of lung carcinomas. This finding corroborates the view that these proliferations exhibit arachnoid cell-like differentiation and suggests a role for sex-steroid hormones in the control of their growth.
Pelosi
Giuseppe
G
Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, European Institute of Oncology, University of Milan School of Medicine, Via G. Ripamonti 435, 20141 Milan, Italy. giuseppe.pelosi@ieo.it
Maffini
Fausto
F
Decarli
Nicola
N
Viale
Giuseppe
G
D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D002467:Cell Nucleus / Q000473:pathology; D003593:Cytoplasm / Q000473:pathology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007150:Immunohistochemistry; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000473:pathology; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D018396:Mucin-1 / Q000032:analysis; D010236:Paraganglioma, Extra-Adrenal / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000473:pathology; D011980:Receptors, Progesterone / Q000032:analysis*; D014746:Vimentin / Q000032:analysis
D018396:Mucin-1; D011980:Receptors, Progesterone; D014746:Vimentin