Muco-epidermoid tumours of the anal canal
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Muco-epidermoid tumours of the anal canal.
The pathology of 21 cases of muco-epidermoid carcinoma of the anal canal is described. These tumours are defined as squamous or transitional cell carcinomas containing areas which secrete mucin of undoubted epithelial origin within the clumps of tumour cells. They are found in that part of the anal canal just above the dentate line where the epithelium is variable in type and represents an embr...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Clinical Pathology
سال: 1963
ISSN: 0021-9746
DOI: 10.1136/jcp.16.3.200