Neuroendocrine markers
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Neuroendocrine markers are immunostains that suggest neuroendocrine differentiation.
Common markers
- Chromogranin A.
- Considered the most specific neuroendocrine stain.[1]
- Synaptophysin +ve.
- CD56.
- Less specific than chromogranin A and synaptophysin.
See also
- ↑ McCluggage, WG.; Kennedy, K.; Busam, KJ. (Apr 2010). "An immunohistochemical study of cervical neuroendocrine carcinomas: Neoplasms that are commonly TTF1 positive and which may express CK20 and P63.". Am J Surg Pathol 34 (4): 525-32. doi:10.1097/PAS.0b013e3181d1d457. PMID 20182342.