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Colonic tubular adenomas and intestinal spirochaetosis: an incompatible association
Author(s) -
COYNE J.D.,
CURRY A.,
PURNELL P.,
HABOUBI N.Y.
Publication year - 1995
Publication title -
histopathology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.626
H-Index - 124
eISSN - 1365-2559
pISSN - 0309-0167
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2559.1995.tb01530.x
Subject(s) - spirochaete , epithelium , pathology , adenoma , biology , intestinal mucosa , intestinal epithelium , microbiology and biotechnology , medicine , bacteria , genetics
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.