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==IHC==
==IHC==
*D2-40 +ve ~100% of cases.<ref name=pmid17277761>{{Cite journal  | last1 = Lau | first1 = SK. | last2 = Weiss | first2 = LM. | last3 = Chu | first3 = PG. | title = D2-40 immunohistochemistry in the differential diagnosis of seminoma and embryonal carcinoma: a comparative immunohistochemical study with KIT (CD117) and CD30. | journal = Mod Pathol | volume = 20 | issue = 3 | pages = 320-5 | month = Mar | year = 2007 | doi = 10.1038/modpathol.3800749 | PMID = 17277761 }}</ref>
[[ISUP]] consensus paper by Ulbright ''et al.'':<ref name=pmid24832161>{{cite journal |author=Ulbright TM, Tickoo SK, Berney DM, Srigley JR |title=Best practices recommendations in the application of immunohistochemistry in testicular tumors: report from the international society of urological pathology consensus conference |journal=Am. J. Surg. Pathol. |volume=38 |issue=8 |pages=e50–9 |year=2014 |month=August |pmid=24832161 |doi=10.1097/PAS.0000000000000233 |url=}}</ref>
*OCT4 +ve.
**Choriocarcinoma, yolk sac tumour and spermatocytic seminoma all -ve.
*CD117 +ve.
**-ve in embryonal carcinoma.
*CD30 -ve.
**+ve in embryonal carcinoma.
 
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*D2-40 +ve ~100% of cases in one series.<ref name=pmid17277761>{{Cite journal  | last1 = Lau | first1 = SK. | last2 = Weiss | first2 = LM. | last3 = Chu | first3 = PG. | title = D2-40 immunohistochemistry in the differential diagnosis of seminoma and embryonal carcinoma: a comparative immunohistochemical study with KIT (CD117) and CD30. | journal = Mod Pathol | volume = 20 | issue = 3 | pages = 320-5 | month = Mar | year = 2007 | doi = 10.1038/modpathol.3800749 | PMID = 17277761 }}</ref>
**Useful for discriminating from [[embryonal carcinoma]].<ref name=pmid18045648/>
**Useful for discriminating from [[embryonal carcinoma]].<ref name=pmid18045648/>
*CD117 +ve (ckit) ~92% of cases.<ref name=pmid17277761/>
*CD117 +ve (ckit) ~92% of cases.<ref name=pmid17277761/>
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