Hongbo Yu, Joanna A Gibson, Geraldine S Pinkus, Jason L Hornick
Podoplanin, recognized by monoclonal antibody D2-40, may be a useful marker for follicular dendritic cell (FDC) tumors. Paraffin sections of 125 dendritic cell, histiocytic, and spindle cell lesions were studied, including 11 FDC tumors, 5 interdigitating dendritic cell tumors, 10 histiocytic sarcomas, 5 Langerhans cell histiocytosis, 5 sinus histiocytosis with massive lymphadenopathy, 5 inflammatory pseudotumors of lymph node or spleen, 9 nodal Kaposi sarcomas, 6 inflammatory myofibroblastic tumors (IMTs), 29 gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GISTs), and 10 cases each of malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumor, leiomyosarcoma, monophasic synovial sarcoma (SS), and solitary fibrous tumor...
November 2007: American Journal of Clinical Pathology