Chasing colonic "Polyps": Features that predict underlying adenomas in initially nondiagnostic endoscopic biopsy specimens

American Journal of Clinical Pathology

Volumn 127, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 409-414

  Polydorides, Alexandros D ^a,b   Yantiss, Rhonda K ^a  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Colorectal polyp; Cost; Reembedding; Reorientation; Size

Indexed keywords

ADENOMATOUS POLYP; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER SIZE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLON POLYP; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOSCOPIC BIOPSY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ADENOMA; BIOPSY; COLON TUMOR; COLONOSCOPY; CYTOCHEMISTRY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; MICROTOMY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

PARAFFIN;

ADENOMA; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOPSY; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; COLONIC POLYPS; COLONOSCOPY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HISTOCYTOCHEMISTRY; HUMANS; MALE; MICROTOMY; MIDDLE AGED; PARAFFIN EMBEDDING; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 34247897108     PISSN: 00029173     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1309/C8Y207EUPCUYR7HY     Document Type: Article

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