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Published in: Gastric Cancer 4/2019

01-07-2019 | Gastric Cancer | Editorial

Where does signet-ring cell carcinoma come from and where does it go?

Author: Tomio Arai

Published in: Gastric Cancer | Issue 4/2019

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Signet-ring cell (SRC) carcinoma, named for its resemblance to a signet ring, once was called “mucocellular adenocarcinoma”. SRC carcinoma is a unique name for a specific adenocarcinoma, the cells of which show a large amount of mucin in the cytoplasm that displaces the nucleus to the cell periphery. …
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Metadata
Title
Where does signet-ring cell carcinoma come from and where does it go?
Author
Tomio Arai
Publication date
01-07-2019
Publisher
Springer Singapore
Published in
Gastric Cancer / Issue 4/2019
Print ISSN: 1436-3291
Electronic ISSN: 1436-3305
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10120-019-00960-w

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