The results show that ED-B is abundantly expressed around the neovasculature and in the stroma of the majority of malignant tumors of the head and neck but is undetectable in normal tissues. The ED-B domain of fibronectin is a good-quality tumor-stroma-associated antigen that warrants clinical trials with antibody-based pharmaceuticals, including immunoscintigraphic investigations and radioimmunoguided surgery with the radiolabeled L19 antibody.
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Birchler et al. (2003) studied this question.