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Adenoma
Reports from Johns Hopkins University highlight recent research in adenoma
March 17th, 2009
"Pyloric gland adenoma (PGA) is a rare neoplasm demonstrating gastric epithelial differentiation. In this series, we studied 41 PGAs from 36 patients. We compared them. to 28 gastric foveolar type gastric adenomas (GTAs) from 25 patients," investigators in the United States report. "PGAs occurred in an older population with a mean age of 73 compared with 48 in GTAs (P < 0.001). There was a significant female predominance, particularly for gastric PGAs. Morphologically, PGAs were characterized by closely packed pyloric gland-type tubules with a monolayer of cuboidal to low columnar epithelial cells containing round nuclei and pale to eosinophilic cytoplasm with a...
Source: Cancer Weekly (2009-03-17)
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