Morphological characteristics of colorectal cancer
- Author:
Hop Van Tran
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
colorectal cancer
- MeSH:
Colorectal Neoplasms;
anatomy & histology
- From:Journal of Vietnamese Medicine
2001;256(2):17-20
- CountryViet Nam
- Language:Vietnamese
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Abstract:
We report the results of morphologic study of 140 cases of colorectal cancer. Male/Female rate is of 0.9. The disease was increased with age and most commons at the age over 40 years. The high rates of tumors were found in rectum (33.5%) and sigmoid colon (14.3%). The great majority of colorectal cancers were carcinoma (96.4%). Five other cases are malignant lymphomas. Most common histological type was adenocarcinoma (85.7%)
