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Grading gastrointestinal dysplasia and what to call it when you don't know what it is.
The Journal of pathology - 1 Jun 2007
Offerhaus G J
Abstract excerpt
Dysplasia in the gastrointestinal tract is defined as intraepithelial neoplasia (IEN) according to the WHO nomenclature. Neoplastic growth in the gastrointestinal tract evolves through stepwise tumour progression in which consecutive morphological stages are characterized by increasing genetic instability accompanied by specific genetic alterations. Invasive cancer is preceded by non-invasive precursor stages and...
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