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Colorectal cancer is still one of the leading causes of cancer-related death in the Western world. Screening colonoscopy is widely accepted as the gold standard for early diagnosis of cancer. The prognosis for patients with colonic neoplasms is strictly dependent on the depth of infiltration and therefore depends on early detection of pre-invasive and neoplastic changes. Early detection makes it possible to cure the patient by means of immediate endoscopic resection.
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Kiesslich, R., Kato, T., Neurath, M.F. (2008). Endomicroscopy of Colon Pathology. In: Atlas of Endomicroscopy. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-35115-3_11
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