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Table 6 Immunohistochemical staining of cytokeratins in tumor and normal tissues

From: Novel markers for differentiation of lobular and ductal invasive breast carcinomas by laser microdissection and microarray analysis

Antibodies

Tumors

Normal tissues (n = 22)

Fisher's pvalue

Cytokeratin 5/6

Ductal carcinomas (n = 80)

9 (11.2%)

22 (100%)

<0.0001

 

Lobular carcinomas (n = 29)

3 (10.3%)

 

<0.0001

Cytokeratin 17

Ductal carcinomas (n = 80)

8 (10%)

22 (100%)

<0.0001

 

Lobular carcinomas (n = 29)

2 (6.9%)

 

<0.0001