Serrated polyps with "intermediate features" of sessile serrated polyp and microvesicular hyperplastic polyp: A practical approach to the classification of nondysplastic serrated polyps

American Journal of Surgical Pathology

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 407-412

  Chung, Sun M ^a   Chen, Yao Tseng ^a   Panczykowski, Andrea ^a   Schamberg, Neal ^a   Klimstra, David S ^b   Yantiss, Rhonda K ^a  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

BRAF; KRAS; MGMT; Sessile serrated adenoma

Indexed keywords

B RAF KINASE; K RAS PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; COLORECTAL TUMOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; POLYP; SESSILE SERRATED POLYP; TUMOR VOLUME;

COLONIC POLYPS; HUMANS; HYPERPLASIA; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTESTINAL POLYPS; KI-67 ANTIGEN; MICRODISSECTION; MUCINS; MUTATION; O(6)-METHYLGUANINE-DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS B-RAF; RAS PROTEINS; RECTAL DISEASES;

EID: 40849102810     PISSN: 01475185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PAS.0b013e318158dde2     Document Type: Article

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