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Our findings are consistent with those of a recent study showing that a vast majority of the ME cells in both normal and ductal carcinoma in situ displayed distinct immunostaining to p63, SM-MHC, and calponin, whereas a single or a cluster of a few ME cells in some ducts failed to show immunoreactivity to all these three markers [ 28 ] . However, our study differs from this study [ 28 ] and previous studies [ 3 4 ] in four aspects: first, the SMA-negative cells were segmented, accounting for at least one-third or all of the ME cells in involved ducts; second, we tested for more ME cell markers; third, the SMA-negative cells assessed were morphologically similar to their adjacent SMA-positive neighbors on H&E-stained sections; fourth, our focus is directed toward the elucidation of the detailed immunohistochemical profile of these SMA-negative cells identified in 3 of 175 examined cases.
In addition, sections from all three cases were immunostained for estrogen receptor (ER) and CK8 to exclude the possibility that these SMA-negative cells might be epithelial in nature.
The same ducts with SMA-negative ME cells were examined for the expression of other markers.
The SMA-positive and SMA-negative cells were morphologically indistinguishable on H&E-stained sections.
The distribution of these SMA-negative ME cells seemed to be independent of the ductal size, length, and architecture.