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Virchows Arch
September 2014
Institute of Pathology, Klinikum Augsburg, Augsburg, Germany,
Fibroelastotic changes (FEC) and especially elastotic polyps of the gastrointestinal (GI) tract are considered rare benign lesions. They consist of accumulations of elastic fibers within the mucosal, submucosal, or muscular layer, occurring in all parts of the GI tract and often appearing as polyps, but also as diffuse non-polyp-forming deposits. They have been the subject of only a few studies.
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August 2008
Institute of Pathology, Klinikum Augsburg, Stenglinstrasse 2, Augsburg, Germany.
Benign lesions in the gastrointestinal tract characterized by an increase of elastic fibers in the submucosal and mucosal layer are termed elastoma, elastosis, elastofibroma or elastofibromatous change, and present mostly as polyps. Twenty-seven such cases are published in the English and French literature. Some lesions are similar to alterations which are well-known from elastofibroma dorsi of the scapular region.
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