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[Phenotypic changes in mucin-secreting cells in the ileal neobladder mucosa: a metaplastic or precancerous lesion?].
Chirurgia italiana - 1 Jan 1998
Di Tonno F, Bertoldin R, Vianello F, Di Pietro R, Cassaro M, Lavelli D, Rugge M
Abstract excerpt
Colonic metaplasia with shifting from sialo-to sulfomucins was observed in 10/18 patients with ileal orthotopic neobladder; their median follow-up was 59 months. There is a significant statistical relationship (p = 0.002) between Colonic Metaplasia and a follow-up longer than 14 months. Diversion Cancer is nowadays a practical problem and probably urologists will be confronted with it in the future more than at...
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