Two distinct pathways of tumorigenesis of adenocarcinomas of the esophagogastric junction, related or unrelated to intestinal metaplasia

Pathology International

Volumn 57, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 315-321

  Nunobe, Souya ^a,c   Nakanishi, Yukihiro ^b   Taniguchi, Hirokazu ^a   Sasako, Mitsuru ^a   Sano, Takeshi ^a   Kato, Hoichi ^a   Yamagishi, Hisakazu ^c   Sekine, Shigeki ^b   Shimoda, Tadakazu ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER CENTER   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL CANCER CENTER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^c KYOTO PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Adenocarcinoma; Esophagogastric junction; Gastric intestinal phenotypic expression; Intestinal metaplasia

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CANCER INCIDENCE; CARCINOGENESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ESOPHAGEAL ADENOCARCINOMA; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; INTESTINE METAPLASIA; JAPANESE; LOWER ESOPHAGUS SPHINCTER; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MALE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BARRETT ESOPHAGUS; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; ESOPHAGOGASTRIC JUNCTION; FEMALE; GASTRIC MUCOSA; HUMANS; INTESTINAL MUCOSA; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; METAPLASIA; MIDDLE AGED; PHENOTYPE; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 34249800123     PISSN: 13205463     EISSN: 14401827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1827.2007.02102.x     Document Type: Article

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