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The squamous cells in bronchial squamous dysplasia must have originated from a metaplastic focus for directly from non-squamous bronchial cells that differentiated directly to a dysplastic squamous phenotype.
The fact that anti-MCM2 more frequently stains metaplastic cells at the epithelial surface suggests that it is more likely than anti-Ki-67 to detect exfoliated proliferating epithelial cells in cytological specimens such as sputum.
Diffuse metaplastic lesions commonly precede cancers.
Thus, metaplastic lesions are frequently associated with chronic inflammation as exemplified by the presence of such lesions in 27% of current smokers but only 7% of former smokers [ 7].
In premalignant lesions, evaluation of the staining by the two antibodies (Table 1) revealed significantly ( p < 0.001) more frequent staining of nuclei within metaplastic lesions by antibodies against MCM2 than by antibodies against Ki-67.