Carcinoid tumour of the middle ear. A morphological and immunohistochemical study with comments on histogenesis and differential diagnosis.

Pathology, Research and Practice
P RuckE Kaiserling

Abstract

Primary carcinoid tumours of the middle ear are extremely rare, only nine cases having been reported. However, their true incidence is probably greater, since they are very difficult or impossible to distinguish from adenomas and adenocarcinomas with conventional histological stains. We describe the clinical, histological, immunohistochemical and ultrastructural findings in a carcinoid tumour of the middle ear in a 50-year-old woman. Immunohistochemical studies on non-neoplastic middle ear mucosa undertaken to investigate the histogenesis of such tumours are also reported. Histologically, the tumour consisted of both solid areas and areas of tubular structures containing intraluminal mucus. All the tumour cells reacted with the anti-keratin antibody KL 1; some were argyrophil and reacted with antibodies against neuron-specific enolase, chromogranin A, Leu-7, serotonin, pancreatic polypeptide, glucagon and lysozyme. Electron microscopy revealed dense core granules in the tumour cells. Endocrine cells could not be detected in non-neoplastic middle ear mucosa. Pancreatic-polypeptide-like immunoreactivity was demonstrated immunohistochemically in all three other published cases of carcinoid tumour of the middle ear investigated for...Continue Reading

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