Differences in the diagnostic criteria used by Japanese and Western pathologists to diagnose colorectal carcinoma

Cancer

Volumn 82, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 60-69

  Schlemper, Ronald J ^a,b   Itabashi, Masayuki ^c   Kato, Yo ^d   Lewin, Klaus J ^e   Riddell, Robert H ^f   Shimoda, Tadakazu ^g   Sipponen, Pentti ^h   Stolte, Manfred ⁱ   Watanabe, Hidenobu ^j  

^a SHOWA UNIVERSITY FUJIGAOKA HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b FUKUOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c IBARAKI PREFECTURAL CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^d CANCER INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f MCMASTER UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTRE   (Canada)

^g NATIONAL CANCER CENTER HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^h JORVI HOSPITAL   (Finland)

ⁱ INSTITUTE OF PATHOLOGY   (Germany)

^j NIIGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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Author keywords

Colorectal neoplasia; Diagnosis; Japan; Western countries

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER CYTODIAGNOSIS; CANCER INVASION; CANCER STAGING; COLON ADENOMA; COLORECTAL CARCINOMA; COLORECTAL TUMOR; DYSPLASIA; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM ADENOMA; WESTERN HEMISPHERE;

ADENOMA; CARCINOMA; CECAL NEOPLASMS; CELL NUCLEUS; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; COLONIC POLYPS; ENDOSCOPY; EUROPE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INTESTINAL MUCOSA; JAPAN; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM STAGING; NORTH AMERICA; OBSERVER VARIATION; PATHOLOGY; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; SIGMOID NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0031941247     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0142(19980101)82:1<60::AID-CNCR7>3.0.CO;2-O     Document Type: Article

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