Modern management of colorectal polyps: Are they all premalignant?

Annals of the Academy of Medicine Singapore

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 263-268

  Konishi, Fumio ^a  

^a JICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Colonoscopic resection; Colorectal adenoma; Flat carcinoma; Malignant potential

Indexed keywords

ADENOMATOUS POLYP; COLON ADENOMA; COLON CARCINOGENESIS; COLORECTAL TUMOR; CONFERENCE PAPER; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; FAMILIAL POLYPOSIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; JAPAN; MALIGNANT TRANSFORMATION; POLYP; PRECANCER; PREVALENCE; RECTUM ADENOMA; ADENOMA; ARTICLE; COLON POLYP; PATHOLOGY;

ADENOMA; COLONIC POLYPS; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; PRECANCEROUS CONDITIONS;

EID: 0037668276     PISSN: 03044602     EISSN: 29724066     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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