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colorectal adenocarcinoma

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The most common type of colorectal carcinoma. It is characterized by the presence of malignant glandular epithelial cells invading through the muscularis mucosa into the submucosa. Histologic variants include mucinous adenocarcinoma, signet ring cell carcinoma, medullary carcinoma, serrated adenocarcinoma, cribriform comedo-type adenocarcinoma, and micropapillary adenocarcinoma. [ ]

Term info

Label

colorectal adenocarcinoma

Synonyms
  • adenocarcinoma of large bowel
  • adenocarcinoma of large intestine
  • adenocarcinoma of the large bowel
  • adenocarcinoma of the large intestine
  • colorectal (colon or rectal) adenocarcinoma
  • colorectal adenocarcinoma
  • colorectum adenocarcinoma
  • large bowel adenocarcinoma
  • large intestine adenocarcinoma
database cross reference
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Editor note: we follow NCIT in treating colorectal and large intestine as equivalent

conformsTo

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/mondo/patterns/adenocarcinoma.yaml

exactMatch

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/DOID_0050913, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/umls/id/C1319315, http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCIT_C5105, http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/DOID_0050861, http://identifiers.org/snomedct/408645001

gwas trait

true

has alternative id

MONDO:0000528

id

EFO:0000365