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Chicken skin mucosa

Sunday 28 December 2008, Branislav Kunčak, M. D.

Colonic chicken skin mucosa.

Colonic chicken skin mucosa is an endoscopic and histological abnormality adjacent to colonic neoplasms. It is a result of fat accumulation in macrophages in the lamina propria of the mucosa.

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Keywords: colonic chicken skin mucosa, neoplasm, colon, rectum, macrophages