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Histologic and immunohistochemical differences between hereditary and sporadic diffuse gastric carcinoma.
Human pathology - 1 Apr 2018
Lee Hee Eun, Smyrk Thomas C, Zhang Lizhi
Abstract excerpt
We aimed to identify histopathologic features unique in hereditary diffuse gastric cancer (HDGC) by comparing with its sporadic counterpart (SDGC). 11 patients with confirmed CDH1 mutation who were found to have HDGC in a prophylactic total gastrectomy were collected. Median age of HDGC patients was 39 years (range 24-57). All HDGC cases had intramucosal signet ring cell carcinoma. Twenty-three invasive tumor...
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