aberrant crypt foci
ACF
MPATH:557
Sensu gastrointsestinal tract. visible microscopically in whole mount colonic tissue. One or more crypts larger than most, have a thickened layer of epithelial cells that stain more intensely with methylene blue. Some have a slit shaped luminal opening, and increased pericryptal space and are elevated from the focal plane of the microscope. ACF is not a histologic diagnosis.
Use IEN1 MPATH:130 instead. Suppressed as not strictly a histological diagnosis.
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