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Molecular validation of the modified Vienna classification of colorectal tumors.
The Journal of molecular diagnostics : JMD - 1 Nov 2002
Sugai Tamotsu, Habano Wataru, Uesugi Noriyuki, Jiao Yu-Fei, Nakamura Shin-ichi, Sato Kimihiko, Chiba Toshimi, Ishii Motohiro
Abstract excerpt
Although the Vienna classification has been introduced to resolve discrepancies in histological diagnoses of colorectal tumors between Western and Japanese pathologists, practical applications of this classification scheme have been problematic because invasion of the lamina propria of tumor cells is often difficult to recognize. Therefore, the following refinements of the classification criteria are needed:...
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