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Research Article| Volume 7, ISSUE 1, P51-56, March 1987

Tumors of the Alimentary Tract

  • Karen R. Cleary
    Correspondence
    Corresponding Author: M.D. Anderson Hospital and Tumor Institute, Texas Medical Center, 6723 Bertner Avenue, Box 85, Houston, Texas 77030.
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    Assistant Professor of Pathology, MD Anderson Hospital and Tumor Institute, The University of Texas System Cancer Center, Houston, Texas
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DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/S0272-2712(18)30762-5
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      Electron microscopy may be very helpful in establishing the diagnosis of alimentary tract neoplasms, especially with tumors that are poorly differentiated. Tonofilaments and keratin in squamous carcinomas, microvilli and intracytoplasmic acini in adenocarcinomas, and neurosecretory granules in carcinoid tumors are distinctive ultrastructural features of the three tumors that occur most frequently. Other, less commonly occurring tumors may also retain features at the ultrastructural level that are specific for the cell of origin and thus helpful in establishing the diagnosis.
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