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COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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colonic
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The most important condition to exclude is colonic carcinoma .
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The colonic carcinomas were staged using Dukes's classification.
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There has been only one report that has identified epoxide hydrolase in colonic carcinomas , by western blot analysis.
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Therefore the relation between the ICAM-1 expression and the clinical course seems to be of diagnostic interest for colonic carcinoma .
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In conclusion it is justified to examine ICAM-1 expression as a potential prognostic risk factor for colonic carcinoma .
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The expression in colonic carcinomas of different forms of glutathione S-transferase has been investigated in several biochemical studies.
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Moreover, the same group of xenobiotic metabolising enzymes are probably involved in the development of colonic carcinoma .
colorectal
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Invasion and metastasis largely determine the clinical course of colorectal carcinomas .
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Each digestion included a positive colorectal carcinoma or adenoma control known to contain a mutation at codon 12.
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Simple indicators of colorectal carcinoma would help to rationalise and improve the efficiency of the investigation of iron deficiency anaemia.
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Other studies have failed to show a relation between serum cholesterol and colorectal carcinoma .
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Each set of sections included a positive colorectal carcinoma control, and a negative control in which the primary antibody was omitted.
gastric
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A recent review confirmed the increase in risk of developing a gastric carcinoma after gastric resection.
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There is also evidence to support a role as a risk factor for gastric carcinoma .
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Discussion A decrease in the incidence of gastric carcinoma has been widely reported over the last three decades.
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This increased incidence of gastric carcinomas seems to be related to local factors.
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The experience of partial gastrectomy indicates that the time required for de novo growth of gastric carcinoma is about 15 years.
hepatocellular
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This was confirmed on computed tomography and biopsy showed it to be a well differentiated hepatocellular carcinoma .
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Histology showed this to be a recurrent hepatocellular carcinoma .
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However, liver transplantation for hepatocellular carcinoma still has a place in carefully selected patients.
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No patient had primary hepatocellular carcinoma .
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On histological review, it was felt that these two tumours were more consistent with hepatocellular carcinoma than cholangiocarcinoma.
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The association between chronic hepatitis C virus infection and hepatocellular carcinoma has been described, although the exact oncogenic mechanism is unknown.
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These results indicate that the second hepatocellular carcinoma was of independent clonality and probably represents a de novo neoplasm rather than a recurrence.
oesophageal
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One male patient had two separate oesophageal carcinomas .
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The tissue type plasminogen activator antigen concentrations in both oesophageal carcinomas and stomach carcinomas were similar to those of the normal tissues.
squamous
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He died at the age of 69 of an unrelated squamous cell carcinoma of the bronchus.
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For squamous cell carcinomas of the oesophagus, histological differentiation grade has no significant effect on survival.
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There is considerable variability and heterogeneity in the clinical course of patients with squamous cell carcinoma of the oesophagus.
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cell
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He died at the age of 69 of an unrelated squamous cell carcinoma of the bronchus.
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It is also the major cause of primary liver cell carcinoma . 7.
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For squamous cell carcinomas of the oesophagus, histological differentiation grade has no significant effect on survival.
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There is considerable variability and heterogeneity in the clinical course of patients with squamous cell carcinoma of the oesophagus.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A high dose dexamethasone test is used to differentiate adrenal hyperplasia from adrenal adenoma or carcinoma .
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By contrast all the enzyme forms studied were expressed in virtually all adenomas and in over half the carcinomas.
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For squamous cell carcinomas of the oesophagus, histological differentiation grade has no significant effect on survival.
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Once a carcinoma has been detected should it be treated?
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Pancreatic carcinoma is now overtaking gastric cancer as the fourth leading cause of death from malignancy in the United Kingdom.
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The reported postoperative mortality after oesophagectomy for carcinoma varies between 10 and 16%.
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This was confirmed on computed tomography and biopsy showed it to be a well differentiated hepatocellular carcinoma .