S-100 PROTEIN IN SOFT-TISSUE TUMORS DERIVED FROM SCHWANN-CELLS AND MELANOCYTES

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  • 1 January 1982
    • journal article
    • research article
    • Vol. 106  (2) , 261-268
Abstract
In soft tissues outside the [human] CNS, S-100 protein is found normally only in Schwann cells. Using the peroxidase-antiperoxidase immunohistochemical method S-100 was also found in tumors derived from Schwann cells and melanocytes, including neurofibromas, neurilemomas, granular cell myoblastomas, cutaneous nevi and malignant melanomas. S-100 was not detected in malignant Schwannomas, neuroblastomas, oat cell carcinomas, medullary carcinomas of the thyroid, paragangliomas or meningiomas. S-100 was also absent from neoplasms of soft tissues not usually considered to arise from cells of neural crest origin. S-100 appears to be a useful marker for identifying neoplasms derived from Schwann cells and melanocytes.