Scanning electron microscopy of aberrant crypt foci in human colorectal mucosa

Anticancer Research

Volumn 18, Issue 5 A, 1998, Pages 3451-3456

  Vaccina, Fabiana ^a   Scorcioni, Francesca ^a   Pedroni, Monica ^a   Tamassia, Maria Grazia ^a   De Leon, Maurizio Ponz ^a   De Pol, Anto ^a   Marzona, Laura ^a   Roncucci, Luca ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Aberrant crypt foci; Colorectal cancer; Preneoplastic lesion; Scanning electron microscopy

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLON CANCER; COLON CARCINOGENESIS; COLON MUCOSA; CONTROLLED STUDY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTESTINE CRYPT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM MUCOSA; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

COLON; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; INTESTINAL MUCOSA; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MICROVILLI; RECTUM;

EID: 0031730522     PISSN: 02507005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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