Table 1 Recommended immunohistochemistry screening panel for challenging cutaneous epithelioid tumors

From: Cutaneous soft tissue tumors: diagnostically disorienting epithelioid tumors that are not epithelial, and other perplexing mesenchymal lesions

Recommended immunohistochemistry screening panel for cutaneous epithelioid tumors

 

Cytokeratins

S100 or SOX10

SMA

CD45

CD34

CD31 or ERG

Carcinoma

+

Melanoma

 + 

Lymphoma

 + 

Epithelioid fibrous and fibrohistiocytic tumors

Epithelioid peripheral nerve sheath tumors

+

Epithelioid tumors with myoid or myoepithelial differentiation

+/−

+/−

+/−

Epithelioid vascular tumors

+

+

+

  1. +: positive staining; : negative staining; +/−: positive staining in subset