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Background. Immunohistochemistry is a useful method in the differential diagnosis between pleural mesotheliomas and metastatic adenocarcinomas in the pleura. Cytokeratin 20 and 7 have been used successfully as markers in studies determining primary location of adenocarcinomas from metastases. The current study is a complementary research of archived paraffininbedded material of cases with cancer origin. This study contributes a bigger statistical material that may facilitate the search for unknown primary site of adenocarcinoma by identification of metastatic cells in the pleura. Methods. Cells from the pleura taken from fifteen patients with diagnosed cancer of different types and eleven patients with cancer of unknown origin, were stained with antibodies against the tumour markers: Ber EP 4, calretinin, cytokeratin 20 and 7, estrogen receptor α, thyroid transcription factor, prostate-specific antigen and Cdx2.The staining was conducted in an automated immunohistochemical system. The staining of each kind of antibody was confirmed by a control section staining. Results. All control staining ended perfect The whole panel of antibodies used on mammary cancer showed the same pattern for every antibody. Of the patients with cancer of unknown origin there were four that gave the same pattern, two men and two women. The women are deceased. To make a more careful evaluation more information and clinic background is needed. The number of samples is too small to draw any statistical conclusions. Comment. Although the control staining was perfect the negative result of CK20 in the cases of diagnosed colon cancer was unexpected. This staining should be performed again to confirm the result. In some cases the number of cells were to few for a certain evaluation. The slides and the results of this work will be archived for further research.