Vimentin and Dezmin cells

Dear forum members, could someone please clarify the following finding: "Within just a few smears, clusters of spindle-shaped Vimentin-positive cells were found, while DEZMIN-negative cells were present," noting that processing wasn't possible in other samples due to an insufficient number of cells...??? Essentially, I was wondering if anyone could explain what these "Vimentin" and "DEZMIN" cells actually are? For context, this is from an iliac bone puncture. Thank you very much.😕🤷

Is your mom in the hospital or what? If she is, you need to push those doctors to actually explain what this means.

It might be better to move this over to the existing thread about leiomyosarcoma...

We're talking about specific tumor markers here.

I did some digging and found all this info on some American medical sites.

http://www.labvision.com/ab.cfm?firs...dy&second=9014

http://www.labvision.com/ab.cfm?Firs...dy&Second=9120

melloworca6 said:Is your mother in the hospital or...? If she’s admitted, you really should insist that the doctors walk you through what all of this actually means.

She isn't in the hospital yet; we're still in the process of gathering all her test results.... Unfortunately, it’s hard to get anyone to give us a straight answer... everyone seems to have their own opinion... and right now, there wasn't even enough material for a full analysis...