Prostatic specific acid phosphatase

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Prostatic specific acid phosphatase, abbreviated PSAP, is prostate marker that predated PSA.

General

Cannot differentiate between benign prostate and prostate cancer, like PSA.^[1]

Microscopic

Features:

Cytoplasmic staining.

Images

PSAP - intermed. mag.
PSAP - high mag.

References

↑ Sauvageot, J.; Epstein, JI. (Jan 1998). "Immunoreactivity for prostate-specific antigen and prostatic acid phosphatase in adenocarcinoma of the prostate: relation to progression following radical prostatectomy.". Prostate 34 (1): 29-33. PMID 9428385.

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