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The expression of sulphated glycosaminoglycans was studied at the ultrastructural level by the high iron diamine technique in the basement membranes of 26 colorectal adenocarcinomas (10 well-differentiated, 7 moderately-differentiated, 9 poorlydifferentiated). Sulphated glycosaminoglycan expression was highly variable. It was scored as regular (5 cases), slightly irregular (6 cases), highly irregular (15 cases). In general, poor histological differentiation could be correlated with absent or highly irregular expression. However, in a limited number of cases, severe alterations of basement membranes were also present in well-differentiated (2 cases) and moderately-differentiated (4 cases) tumours. Such a variability shows up a heterogeneity which is not revealed by histological grading.
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Malchiodi-Albedi, F., Ciaralli, F. & Giuliani, A. Sulphated glycosaminoglycans expression in the basement membranes of colorectal adenocarcinomas. Preliminary study: correlation with histological grading. Histochem J 23, 229–234 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01462245
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