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Colonic tubular adenomas and intestinal spirochaetosis: an incompatible association
J D Coyne1, A Curry, P Purnell
1Department of Histopathology, South Manchester University Hospitals NHS Trust, Withington Hospital, UK.
Histopathology
|October 1, 1995
Abstract:
Two cases of tubulovillous adenoma and adjacent colonic mucosa were studied in which intestinal spirochaetosis had heavily colonized the non-neoplastic but not the neoplastic epithelium. Ultrastructural and histochemical studies were performed and we postulate that the reason for this disparity is the normal microvillous pattern of the non-neoplastic epithelium which facilitates colonization by the spirochaetes.