Adenoma

New findings from T. Yamada and co-authors describe advances in adenoma

Published in Medical Imaging Business Week, September 10th, 2009

"Having noted a discrepancy between endoscopic and histopathological diagnoses in cases of minute adenomas of the colon, a prospective study was designed to clarify which is appropriate, magnifying chromoendoscopy or histopathology of a specimen obtained by biopsy forceps. A total of 208 patients comprised the study population," scientists in Kochi, Japan report.

"The endoscopic diagnoses were performed with magnifying colonoscopies. We separated the detected lesions with type IIIL pit pattern following Kudo's classification into two groups at random: in group A (n = 104) resected specimens were fixed with 20% buffered formalin without being flattened, whereas in group...

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Source: Medical Imaging Business Week (2009-09-10)

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