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Concurrent occurrence of gastric adenocarcinoma and duodenal neuroendocrine cell carcinoma: a composite tumour or collision tumours ?
Gut - 1 Jun 2001
Fukui H, Takada M, Chiba T, Kashiwagi R, Sakane M, Tabata F, Kuroda Y, Ueda Y, Kawamata H, Imura J, Fujimori T
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BACKGROUND: Neuroendocrine cell (NEC) carcinoma is occasionally accompanied by adenocarcinoma but the relationship between these two morphologically distinct tumours is unclear. Two hypotheses have arisen regarding the mechanism for the association of adenocarcinoma and NEC carcinoma. One is that...
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