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Mucin phenotypes and macroscopic shape of multiple hyperplastic polyps together with two carcinomas in the stomach.
Hepato-gastroenterology - 1 Jan 2000
Mizuguchi Yasuhiro, Takei Kazuo, Matsubayashi Jun, Kojima Tatsuya, Nisinakagawa Shuuta, Oba Nobuyuki, Kawai Takashi, Moriyasu Fuminori
Abstract excerpt
The patient was a 57-year-old Japanese woman who had been identified as having anemia and hypoproteinemia by a local group medical check-up. Esophagogastroduodenoscopy revealed an elevated lesion of 35mm in diameter on the posterior wall of the gastric antrum, surrounded by multiple polyps. The elevated lesion was diagnosed as an adenocarcinoma on the basis of biopsy, and total gastrectomy was performed....
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