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Immunophenotype of Thymic Epithelial Tumors According to the New World Health Organization Classification.
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Original Article Immunophenotype of Thymic Epithelial Tumors According to the New World Health Organization Classification.
Sung Hye Park, Han Seong Kim, Han Kyeom Kim, Bong Kyung Shin, Seung Mo Hong, Jae Y Ro
Journal of Pathology and Translational Medicine 2001;35(4):278-285
DOI: https://doi.org/
1Departments of Pathology, IlsanPaik Hospital, Inje University, Ilsan 411-706, Korea. sunghye@ilsanpaik.ac.kr
2Departments of Pathology, Anam and Guro Hospitals, Korea University, Korea.
3Departments of Pathology, Asan Medical Center, Ulsan University, Seoul 136-705, Korea.
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BACKGROUND
To identify the expression patterns and usefulness of various antibodies in making diagnoses and predicting prognoses, an immunohistochemical study was performed on thymic epithelial tumors (TETs).
METHODS
Forty-two cases of TETs were reclassified according to the new World Health Organization (WHO) classifications. CD3, CD5, CD79a, CD99, pan-, high- and low-molecular weight cytokeratins, EMA, vimentin, MIB-1 (Ki67) and p53 immunostaining were carried out.
RESULTS
There were two, twelve, eight, two, thirteen and one case for type A, AB, B1, B2, B3 and C, respectively. Combined B1/B2 and B2/B3 were 2 cases each. Fourteen cases (33.3%) had myasthenia gravis. CD99 was immunoreactive mainly in cortically derived lymphocytes, while CD3 and CD5 were immunoreactive in medullary-derived lymphocytes. CD5 immunoreactivity was negative in all thymic epithelial cells, except for one case of type B3. MIB-1 indices were highly expressed in cortical lymphocytes and some thymic epithelial cells, but did not show any correlation with grades. p53 in thymic epithelial cells was expressed in 6 (46%) out of 13 cases of type B3 and one case of type C, and it was negative in all other subtypes.
CONCLUSIONS
Only p53 was helpful for predicting high grades (B3 and C) (P<0.05). By MIB-1 indices, we could tell how many cortical immature lymphocytes were occupied in TETs, however, grading could not be achieved.

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