Looking through a keyhole: Serrated neoplasia in the vermiform appendix

American Journal of Clinical Pathology

Volumn 133, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 529-532

  Upton, Melissa P ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPENDECTOMY; APPENDIX TUMOR; COLON POLYP; COLON TUMOR; CYSTADENOMA; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM INJURY; EDITORIAL; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; GASTROINTESTINAL MUCOSA; GENE MUTATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HYPERPLASIA; LYMPHOID TISSUE; NEOPLASM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ADENOMA; APPENDIX; NOTE;

ADENOMA; APPENDECTOMY; APPENDICEAL NEOPLASMS; APPENDIX; HUMANS;

EID: 77950508500     PISSN: 00029173     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1309/AJCPUPMRP1RTDSU2     Document Type: Editorial

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