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Gastric Intraepithelial Neoplasia
A intraepithelial neoplasia (dysplasia) that arises in either the native gastric mucosa or in metaplastic gastric epithelium. It has a flat, polypoid or slightly depressed growth pattern. It is graded as low grade (mild dysplasia) or high grade (moderate dysplasia and carcinoma in situ). (WHO, 2000) (NCI Thesaurus)
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