The Serrated Polyp Comes of Age

Gastroenterology

Volumn 131, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1631-1634

  Lauwers, Gregory Y ^a   Chung, Daniel C ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

B RAF KINASE; DNA; K RAS PROTEIN; ONCOPROTEIN; PROTEIN MLH1;

ADENOMATOUS POLYP; CANCER RISK; COLON ADENOMA; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; EDITORIAL; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC CORRELATION; HUMAN; HYPERPLASIA; INCIDENTAL FINDING; MALIGNANT TRANSFORMATION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; ONCOGENE; ONCOGENE K RAS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 33750705622     PISSN: 00165085     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.gastro.2006.09.035     Document Type: Editorial

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