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Antineuronal Nuclei Immunohistochemical Staining Patterns in Childhood Ependymomas

Department of Pathology, Baylor College of Medicine, Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, TX

Dawna L. Armstrong, MD

Department of Pathology, Baylor College of Medicine, Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, TX, Departments of Pathology Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, TX

Douglas Strother, MD

Department of Pediatric Oncology Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, TX

Dorene M. Rudman, HT(ASCP)

Departments of Pathology Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, TX

Robert C. Dauser, MD

Department of Pediatric Neurosurgery Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, TX

John P. Laurent, MD

Department of Pediatric Neurosurgery Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, TX

Jeffery Deyd, MD, PhD

Department of Pediatric Oncology Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, TX

Emilie Rouah, MD

Department of Pathology, Baylor College of Medicine, Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, TX, erouah{at}bcm.tmc.edu, Departments of Pathology Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, TX

NeuN, the mouse-derived monoclonal antibody to the reportedly neuron-specific nuclear protein, has been observed to react with many different types of normal, postmitotic neurons throughout the central and peripheral nervous systems. We retrospectively examined 23 surgical specimens (collected from 20 patients) originally diagnosed at our institution between 1983 and 1999 as ependymoma (9), myxopapillary ependymoma (1), anaplastic/malignant ependymoma (10), and primitive neuroectodermal tumor with ependymal differentiation (3). The ependymomas included lesions from the spine (3), cerebrum (5), and posterior fossa (15). Representative formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded sections from each tumor were subjected to immunohistochemical staining with antibody against NeuN (Chemicon International, Inc, Temecula, CA). Five astrocytomas, four primitive neuroectodermal tumors, and normal cerebral cortex and ependyma from autopsy brains of premature newborns, term infants, and older children served as controls. Thirteen ependymal tumors had positive nuclear staining ranging from rare tumor cells to numerous groups of cells; of these, 9 were anaplastic ependymomas and had the most staining. These studies suggest that some ependymomas arise from a pluripotential neuroglial cell. (J Child Neurol 2001;16:548-552).

Journal of Child Neurology, Vol. 16, No. 8, 548-552 (2001)
DOI: 10.1177/088307380101600802


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