Pathological diagnosis and immunohistochemical analysis of minute pulmonary meningothelial-like nodules: A case report

Table 1 Literature review of the immunohistochemistry of minute pulmonary meningothelial-like nodules

Ref.	Number of nodules/lesions evaluated	Immunophenotype
		EMA	VIM	PR	CD56	SSTR2a	CK	Syn	Actin	S100	HMB-45	NSE	CgA
Bernabeu et al[13], 2013	1	1/0a	1/0	1/0	1/0	–	0/1	0/1	0/1	–	0/1	–	0/1
Lee et al[18], 2013	1	1/0	1/0	1/0	1/0	–	0/1	–	–	–	–	–	–
Tao et al[4], 2019	39	29/10	–	11/28	–	39/0	0/39	0/39	–	0/39	–	–	0/39
Niho et al[6], 1999	29	22/0b	29/0	9/9	–	–	0/29	2/27	–	10/11	0/28	25/4	1/28
Pelosi et al[21], 2002	9	9/0	9/0	9/0	–	–	0/6	0/6	0/6	0/6	0/6	–	–
Peng et al[8], 2019	8	7/0	8/0	6/0	–	–	0/2	–	–	–	–	–	–
Agozzino et al[19], 2006	1	1/0	1/0	0/1	–	–	0/1	0/1	0/1	0/1	–	0/1	0/1
Kfour et al[20], 2012	2	2/0	2/0	2/0	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
Torikata et al[5], 1990	24	0/18	24/0	–	–	–	0/17	–	0/21	0/16	–	0/17	–
Gaffey et al[10], 1988	14	12/2	10/2	–	–	–	0/14	–	0/7	0/14	–	0/14	–
Harada et al[7], 2019	1	1/0	1/0	1/0	1/0	NR	NR	NR	NR	NR	NR	NR	NR
Total	129	85/30	86/2	40/38	3/0	39/0	0/110	2/74	0/36	10/87	0/35	25/36	1/68

^aNumber of lesions with positive immunocytochemical staining/negative immunocytochemical staining.

^bNot all nodules/lesions are evaluated for specific immunophenotypes.

EMA: Epithelial membrane antigen; VIM: Vimentin; PR: Progesterone receptor; SSTR2a: Somatostatin receptor 2a; CK: Cytokeratin; Syn: Synaptophysin; NSE: Neuron-specific enolase; CgA: Chromogranin A; NR: Not reported; –: Not evaluated.