Table 1.
Summary of immunohistochemistry for AQP3 in skin lesions.
| N | Absent | Focal | Intermediate | Diffuse | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nonneoplastic lesions | Seborrheic keratosis | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14 |
| Verruca vulgaris | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 16 | |
| Sebaceous hyperplasia | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13 | |
| Molluscum contagiosum | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | |
| Nevocellular nevus | 26 | 18 | 8 | 0 | 0 | |
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| Benign tumors | Hidradenoma | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 |
| Eccrine poroma | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 6 | |
| Sebaceoma | 16 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 8 | |
| Sebaceous adenoma | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | |
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| Premalignant lesion and malignant tumors | Solar keratosis | 24 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 24 |
| Bowen's disease | 26 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 24 | |
| Squamous cell carcinoma | 43 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 33 | |
| Basal cell carcinoma | 32 | 32 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Paget's disease | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 16 | |
| Sebaceous carcinoma | 9 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Apocrine carcinoma | 19 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 16 | |
| Malignant melanoma | 28 | 28 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Absent, negative; mild, focal (1 to 9% of cells); moderate, intermediate (10 to 50%); diffuse (more than 50%).