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Emergence of adenomatous aberrant crypt foci (ACF) from hyperplastic ACF with concomitant increase in cell proliferation.
Cancer research - 1 Nov 1995
Otori K, Sugiyama K, Hasebe T, Fukushima S, Esumi H
Abstract excerpt
To investigate the relationship between aberrant crypt foci (ACF) and colon neoplasia in colorectal carcinogenesis, we evaluated 433 ACF, which were collected from the grossly normal mucosa of surgical specimens from 57 patients with colorectal cancer. The ACF ranged in size from 3 to 412 aberrant crypts/focus. Large ACF (> or = 50 crypts/focus) comprised 25% of the total ACF studied. Histopathologically, 65% (67...
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