Neoplastic and pre-neoplastic changes in gastrointestinal endometriosis: A study of 17 cases

American Journal of Surgical Pathology

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 513-524

  Yantiss, Rhonda K ^a   Clement, Philip B ^b   Young, Robert H ^a,c  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Endometriosis; Gastrointestinal tract; Neoplasms; Premalignant changes

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CARCINOGENESIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; ENDOMETRIOSIS; ESTROGEN THERAPY; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL TUMOR; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALIGNANT TRANSFORMATION; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PRECANCER;

ADENOFIBROMA; ADENOSARCOMA; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA IN SITU; CARCINOMA, ENDOMETRIOID; CELL TRANSFORMATION, NEOPLASTIC; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; ENDOMETRIAL HYPERPLASIA; ENDOMETRIOSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GASTROINTESTINAL NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PRECANCEROUS CONDITIONS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-KIT; SARCOMA, ENDOMETRIAL STROMAL;

EID: 0034110974     PISSN: 01475185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000478-200004000-00005     Document Type: Article

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