High-grade dysplastic adenoma-like mass lesions are not an indication for colectomy in patients with ulcerative colitis

Scandinavian Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 43, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 817-820

  Blonski, Wojciech ^a,b   Kundu, Rabi ^a   Furth, Emma F ^a   Lewis, James ^a   Aberra, Faten ^a   Lichtenstein, Gary R ^a  

^a HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b WROCLAW MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Colorectal cancer; Dysplastic adenoma like lesions; High grade dysplasia; Ulcerative colitis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER GRADING; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; COLON ADENOMA; COLON RESECTION; COLONOSCOPY; DISEASE COURSE; DYSPLASIA; DYSPLASIA ASSOCIATED LESION; ENTERITIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT INDICATION; ULCERATIVE COLITIS;

ADENOMA; ADULT; AGED; COLECTOMY; COLITIS, ULCERATIVE; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; COLONOSCOPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 46349100433     PISSN: 00365521     EISSN: 15027708     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00365520801909686     Document Type: Article

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