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Fig. 2

From: Clinicopathologic characteristics of early gastric cancer according to specific intragastric location

Fig. 2

Transverse location (a) and histologic distribution (b) of early gastric carcinoma according to vertical location. The transverse location is indicated as posterior wall (PW), greater curvature (GC), anterior wall (AW), and lesser curvature (LC) (a). The middle third shows more frequent poorly differentiated (PD) adenocarcinoma or signet ring cell carcinoma (SRC) histology compared to upper or lower thirds, which has predominent well diffrentiated (WD) or moderatedly differentiated (MD) histology (b)

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BMC Gastroenterology

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