Article
[Colorectal serrated adenoma: diagnostic criteria and clinical implications].
Verhandlungen der Deutschen Gesellschaft fur Pathologie - 1 Jan 2007
Rüschoff J, Aust D, Hartmann A
Abstract excerpt
More than 40 years ago Morson (1962) coined the paradigm that adenomas are the main precursors of colorectal carcinoma (CRC) whereas hyperplastic polyps are "non-neoplastic" lesions without cancer risk. Later-on (1988) this was supported by Vogelstein's molecular adenoma-carcinoma progression model with APC mutations being a key-initiating molecular event (classic adenoma-carcinoma pathway). In 1992 a new...
Topics
- Adenoma
- Colonic Polyps
- Colorectal Neoplasms
- Diagnosis, Differential
- Genes, APC
- Humans
- Hyperplasia
- Mutation
