Table 1.
Initial diagnosis | IHC classification | |||||
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Tumour entity | Differentiation | N° of Cases | Ck−Ne+ | Ck+Ne+ | Ck+Ne− | Ck−Ne− |
ONB | Grade I | 3 | 3 | |||
Grade II | 10 | 5 | 2 | 3a | ||
Grade III | 6 | 1 | 5 | |||
Grade IV | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | ||
SNEC | 11 | 8 | 2 | 1 | ||
SNUC | 19 | 1 | 18b,c | |||
Total | 24 | 11 | 18 | 24 | 1 |
Legend. ONB: olfactory neuroblastoma; SNEC: sinonasal neuroendocrine carcinoma; SNUC sinonasal undifferentiated carcinoma; Ck: pan-cytokeratin marker (AE1/AE3); Ne: neuroendocrine markers (synaptophysin/cromogranin); aone case is also SMARCB1-deficient; bone case is also SMARCB1-deficient; cone case shows focal NUT staining.