Gastric polyps: Classification and management

Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 132, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 633-640

  Do, Youn Park ^a   Lauwers, Gregory Y ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COWDEN SYNDROME; CRONKHITE CANADA SYNDROME; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENDOSCOPIC POLYPECTOMY; EOSINOPHILIC GRANULOMA; ERADICATION THERAPY; FUNDIC GLAND POLYP; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HYPERPLASIA; JUVENILE POLYP; MENETRIER DISEASE; REVIEW; SEX DIFFERENCE; STOMACH ADENOCARCINOMA; STOMACH CANCER; STOMACH POLYP; TUMOR CLASSIFICATION; XANTHOMA;

CELL TRANSFORMATION, NEOPLASTIC; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; PATHOLOGY; POLYPS; STOMACH DISEASES; STOMACH NEOPLASMS;

EID: 41749101495     PISSN: 00039985     EISSN: 15432165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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