Villous adenomas of the colorectum.

American journal of surgery ·Vol. 131 ·No. 2 ·1976-02-00 ·Pages 185-91

Welch JP, Welch CE

Abstract

During a ten-year period 258 patients with villous adenomas were seen at the Massachusetts General Hospital: seventy-four of these patients (29%) had invasive cancer that developed in adenomas. The operative mortality ascribed to removal of benign adenomas was zero, but for cancer arising in villous adenomas it was 3 per cent. Therapy often is difficult because of the size and location of the tumors. Methods of removal have been considered in detail.

MeSH Terms

Adenocarcinoma, Mucinous/pathology Adenoma/diagnosis,pathology,surgery Aged Colectomy Colon/pathology Colonic Neoplasms/diagnosis,pathology,surgery Colostomy Female Humans Intestinal Neoplasms/pathology Intestinal Polyps/surgery Laparotomy Male Neoplasm Recurrence, Local Organ Specificity Postoperative Complications/mortality Rectal Neoplasms/diagnosis,pathology,surgery Rectum/pathology Sigmoidoscopy Terminology as Topic

Authors & Affiliations

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Welch J P

Welch C E

Article Info

Journal

American journal of surgery

Abbr.

Am J Surg

ISSN

0002-9610

DOI

10.1016/0002-9610(76)90095-7

Published

1976-02-00

Pages

185-91

Language

English

Region

United States

NLM ID

0370473

Subset

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PubMed source DOI: 10.1016/0002-9610(76)90095-7 View journal details

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