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Morphological subclassification of intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma: etiological, clinicopathological, and molecular features.
Modern pathology : an official journal of the United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology, Inc - 1 Aug 2014
Liau Jau-Yu, Tsai Jia-Huei, Yuan Ray-Hwang, Chang Chih-Ning, Lee Hsin-Jung, Jeng Yung-Ming
Abstract excerpt
On the basis of morphological features, we subclassified 189 intrahepatic cholangiocarcinomas into two subtypes: bile duct and cholangiolar. The cholangiolar type is composed of cuboidal to low columnar tumor cells that contain scanty cytoplasm. The bile duct type is composed of tall columnar tumor cells arranged in a large glandular pattern. In this study, 77 (41%) tumors were classified as the cholangiolar type...
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