TY - JOUR AU - Hioki, K AB - CORRESPONDENCE 871 that of Yoshikawa and Utsunomiya only disclose that transitional Polite surgeons? mucosa has a different distribution of cell compartments from the normal mucosa; there is no direct evidence that transitional mucosa is a preneoplastic phenomenon. Sir As reported previously2, we consider that transitional mucosa Surgeons must rank as the most courteous people in the world. is more likely to be a secondary phenomenon rather than a I sometimes work for the UK Cochrane Collaboration hand- preneoplastic one for the following reasons: (1) transitional searching journals for randomized controlled trials and clinical mucosa is present in patients with benign polyps, not only those controlled trials. I have recently had the pleasure of reading the with neoplastic lesions; (2) in patients with carcinoma, a British Journal of Surgery for 1995. The pleasure lay in the transitional mucosa is recognized not only in those typical of an correspondence. Almost invariably every letter from, say, a Mr adenoma-carcinoma sequence but also in those cases of Brown opens with an expression of interest (sometimes great, suspected de novo origin. It is doubtful whether there is the same occasionally enormous) in a paper published by Mr Smith. Mr preneoplastic change in the two TI - Management of intestinal obstruction after gastrectomy for carcinoma JO - British Journal of Surgery DO - 10.1002/bjs.1800830651 DA - 1996-06-01 UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/management-of-intestinal-obstruction-after-gastrectomy-for-carcinoma-mErMcV4HVL SP - 871 EP - 872 VL - 83 IS - 6 DP - DeepDyve ER -