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Seventeen cases of signet-cell mucinous adenocarcinoma of the rectosigmoid and rectum, seen over a 25-year period at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Hospital, were reviewed. We conclude, in agreement with previous authors, that it is an infrequent lesion that is usually discovered at an advanced stage. However, with early radical surgical intervention the prognosis can be favorable.
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Read at the meeting of the American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons, Atlanta, Georgia, June 10 to 14, 1979.
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Bonello, J.C., Sternberg, S.S. & Quan, S.H.Q. The significance of the signet-cell variety of adenocarcinoma of the rectum. Dis Colon Rectum 23, 180–183 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02587622
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02587622