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===Immunostain=== | ===Immunostain=== | ||
*Relatively specific for prostate | *Relatively specific for prostate | ||
*May be found in normal pancreatic, salivary gland, Skene's glands and lactating breast tissue. | *May be found in normal pancreatic, salivary gland, Skene's glands and lactating breast tissue.<ref name=pmid21979599>{{cite journal |vauthors=Kelly P, McBride HA, Kennedy K, Connolly LE, McCluggage WG |title=Misplaced Skene's glands: glandular elements in the lower female genital tract that are variably immunoreactive with prostate markers and that encompass vaginal tubulosquamous polyp and cervical ectopic prostatic tissue |journal=Int. J. Gynecol. Pathol. |volume=30 |issue=6 |pages=605–12 |date=November 2011 |pmid=21979599 |doi=10.1097/PGP.0b013e31821713b6 |url=}}</ref> | ||
*In women, positive in up to 30-40% of breast cancers and also in tubulo-squamous polyps of the vagina. | *In women, positive in up to 30-40% of breast cancers and also in tubulo-squamous polyps of the vagina. | ||
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