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JOURNAL OF GASTROENTEROLOGY
Volume 45, Issue 12, Pages 1212-1218Publisher
SPRINGER JAPAN KK
DOI: 10.1007/s00535-010-0288-3
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Desmoplastic reaction; Early colorectal cancer; Submucosal invasion; Biopsy
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- Japanese Society for Cancer of the Colon and Rectum
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We have previously demonstrated a relationship between the depth of submucosal invasion (SM depth) and the frequency of lymph node metastasis in resected submucosal invasive colorectal cancers (SICRCs). Here, we assessed the desmoplastic reaction (DR) in pretreatment biopsy specimens of SICRC to predict the SM depth. A total of 359 patients with SICRCs, who had undergone surgical or endoscopic mucosal resection, were enrolled. The SM depth of the SICRC lesions was evaluated according to the procedure established by the Japanese Society for Cancer of the Colon and Rectum, and the patients' corresponding pretreatment biopsy specimens were examined histologically to evaluate the prevalence of DR. For pedunculated SICRCs, the prevalence of DR in pretreatment biopsy specimens was significantly higher in moderately differentiated than in well-differentiated adenocarcinomas, but was not significantly related to SM depth. For nonpedunculated SICRCs, the prevalence of DR in pretreatment biopsy specimens was significantly related to histological type, tumor size, and SM depth. When non-pedunculated SICRCs were further divided using a specific cutoff value of 1000 mu m for SM depth, the DR positivity rate in pretreatment biopsy specimens was significantly higher in SICRCs with an SM depth of a parts per thousand 1000 mu m (termed SM massive CRCs) than in cases where the SM depth was < 1000 mu m (termed SM slight CRCs). Detection of DR in pretreatment biopsy specimens is useful for the prediction of SM depth in nonpedunculated SICRCs, and may be useful for the selection of such cases that would be treatable by endoscopic mucosal resection and endoscopic submucosal dissection (EMR/ESD).
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