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Adenocarcinoma
Study data from K. Takubo et al provide new insights into adenocarcinoma
February 3rd, 2009
According to recent research published in the journal Human Pathology, "Many publications focusing on the background or original mucosa of Barrett adenocarcinoma have maintained that adenocarcinoma arises in intestinal-type mucosa with goblet cells ill the columnar-lined esophagus, and this has become a central dogma. The mucosa on each side of a series of 141 minute esophageal adenocarcinomas (almost all of which were mucosal carcinomas) resected by endoscopic mucosal resection was recorded as the background mucosa." "All 141 cases had endoscopic evidence of all esophageal origin,and For 113 of them, histologic evidence of an esophageal origin was also...
Source: Cancer Weekly (2009-02-03)
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