Table 2. Results of immunostaining using adipophilin antibodies in all subtypes of renal cell carcinoma (n=275).
Staining | Membranea | Cytoplasmb | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
frequency | percentage | frequency | percentage | ||
0 | Negative | 155 | 56.3% | 207 | 75.3% |
1 | Weak | 45 | 16.4% | 56 | 20.3% |
2 | Moderate | 69 | 25.1% | 12 | 4.4% |
3 | Strong | 6 | 2.2% | 0 | 0.0% |
Comments: a all positive cases are clear cell subtype, except 2 case of papillary subtype (1x weak and 1x moderate staining), b all positive cases are clear cell subtype, with except of 3 other cases with papillary subtype (3x weak)