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Veterinary Pathology, Vol 33, Issue 4 391-397, Copyright © 1996 by American College of Veterinary Pathologists

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Immunohistochemical characterization of hemangiopericytomas and other spindle cell tumors in the dog

J. Perez, M. J. Bautista, E. Rollon, F. C. de Lara, L. Carrasco and J. Martin de las Mulas
Departamento de Anatomia y Anatomia Patologica Comparadas, Facultad de Veterinaria, Universidad de Cordoba, Spain.

The immunohistochemical expression of muscle actin has been studied in 45 canine hemangiopericytomas (CHP) using a monoclonal antibody (HHF35) and formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded specimens. The distribution of vimentin, desmin, cytokeratins, lysozyme, factor VIII-related antigen, S-100 protein, and glial fibrillary acidic protein was studied both in CHP and in some canine soft-tissue neoplasms (seven fibrosarcomas, seven benign schwannomas, seven benign fibrous histiocytomas, and six leiomyosarcomas) used as controls for differential diagnosis. All CHP and control tumors expressed vimentin. Twenty-three CHP expressed muscle actin, whereas all control tumors analyzed were muscle actin-negative, with the exception of leiomyosarcomas. Among muscle actin- and vimentin-positive CHP, one case could be reclassified as leiomyosarcoma because it was desmin-positive, two cases expressed lysozyme, and nine cases expressed S-100 protein. Among muscle actin-negative and vimentin-positive CHP, seven expressed S-100 protein. In addition, S-100 protein was detected in five schwannomas. All CHP and control tumors analyzed were negative for cytokeratins, factor VIII-related antigen, and glial fibrillary acidic protein. Our results support the hypothesis of a pericytic origin of CHP, and suggest that muscle actin, desmin, vimentin, and lysozyme could be useful for the differential diagnosis of canine spindle cell tumors, but not all these neoplasms can be identified with these tumor tissue markers.


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