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World J Gastroenterol. Apr 28, 2014; 20(16): 4597-4606
Published online Apr 28, 2014. doi: 10.3748/wjg.v20.i16.4597
Published online Apr 28, 2014. doi: 10.3748/wjg.v20.i16.4597
Invasive micropapillary carcinoma: A distinct type of adenocarcinomas in the gastrointestinal tract
Katarzyna Guzińska-Ustymowicz, Katarzyna Niewiarowska, Anna Pryczynicz, Department of General Pathomorphology, Medical University of Bialystok, 15-269 Bialystok, Poland
Author contributions: Guzinska-Ustymowicz K and Niewiarowska K solely contributed to this paper; Pryczynicz A revised the paper; Guzinska-Ustymowicz K approved the final version to be published.
Correspondence to: Katarzyna Guzińska-Ustymowicz, MD, Department of General Pathomorphology, Medical University of Bialystok, ul. Waszyngtona 13, 15-269 Bialystok, Poland. kasia.guzinska@gmail.com
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Received: October 7, 2013
Revised: February 5, 2014
Accepted: March 19, 2014
Published online: April 28, 2014
Revised: February 5, 2014
Accepted: March 19, 2014
Published online: April 28, 2014
Core Tip
Core tip: We summarize the recent literature reports about individual cases and study groups of invasive micropapillary carcinoma. We postulated that invasive micropapillary carcinoma is still a great diagnostic challenge in pathomorphology and due to its high aggressiveness should be treated as a distinct histological subtype of carcinomas in gastrointestinal tract.