The serrated polyp: Getting it right!

Journal of Clinical Pathology

Volumn 63, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 665-668

  Ensari, A ^a   Bosman, F T ^b,c   Offerhaus, G J A ^d  

^a ANKARA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^c MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA CATENIN; PROTEIN MLH1; PROTEIN MSH2; PROTEIN MSH6;

ADENOMA; CANCER RISK; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL GROWTH; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHROMOSOMAL INSTABILITY; COLORECTAL CANCER; CPG ISLAND; DNA METHYLATION; DYSPLASIA; EDITORIAL; GENE LOSS; GENE MUTATION; HEREDITARY NONPOLYPOSIS COLORECTAL CANCER; HISTOPATHOLOGY; MICROSATELLITE INSTABILITY; MISMATCH REPAIR; POLYP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SERRATED POLYP; TUMOR CLASSIFICATION; TUMOR GROWTH; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADENOMA; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; DISEASE PROGRESSION; HUMANS; INTESTINAL POLYPS; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC;

EID: 77955741034     PISSN: 00219746     EISSN: 14724146     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jcp.2010.077222     Document Type: Editorial

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