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- adjective
tubular andvillous
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Examples
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The colon polyp was a tubulovillous adenoma with high-grade dysplasia and foci of intramucosal carcinoma.
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The colon polyp was a tubulovillous adenoma with high-grade dysplasia and foci of intramucosal carcinoma.
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Participants must be between 40 and 70 years old and have a history of developing adenomas that are deemed advanced, meaning they are greater than or equal to 1 centimeter in size, are typed as villous or tubulovillous, or contain severely dysplastic, or abnormal, cells.
innovations-report 2009
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Prof. John M. Carethers reported an unusual case of a mixed rectal tumor containing a superficial tubulovillous adenoma with deeper areas of high grade malignant spindle cells and an invasive adenocarcinoma.
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Only nine cases of sarcomatoid carcinomas of the colorectum have been reported to date and this is the first report of co-existence of sarcomatoid carcinoma and invasive adenocarcinoma with tubulovillous adenoma.
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Superficial biopsies during colonoscopy revealed a tubulovillous adenoma with high-grade dysplasia.
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The surgically-excised specimen demonstrated the presence of poorly differentiated spindle cells underneath the tubulovillous adenoma with another intermediate stage: invasive adenocarcinoma.
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