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Value of Histopathology in Predicting Microsatellite Instability in Hereditary Nonpolyposis Colorectal Cancer and Sporadic Colorectal Cancer
23 Oct 2003
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Identification of colorectal carcinomas with high levels of DNA microsatellite instability (MSI-H) is important because of the suggested prognostic and therapeutic significance associated with MSI. The role of histology in identifying MSI-H colorectal carcinomas has been suggested by some studies but not confirmed by others. Furthermore, previous studies assumed that hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal cancer...
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