testicular ultrasonography and serum tumour markers, to eliminate the presence of testicular cancer. In 57 of the 68 men, specimens taken from bilateral testicular FNAC were stained immunocytochemically using anti-PLAP monoclonal antibodies. After 8 years, the same protocol was repeated on the 57 men, and the follow-up was prolonged until March 2005 for men with previous positive PLAP immunostaining.
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CONCLUSIONThe present findings do not seem to confirm the reliability of PLAP immunostaining of testicular specimens from FNAC for detecting CIS. These findings might depend on the geographical variability of both CIS and testicular cancer incidence, as well as on the variable relationship between CIS and successive occurrence of invasive testis cancer.
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