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How can there be intestinal metaplasia of stomach?

scilearner
in Biology

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Hello everyone,

 

Stomach normal epithelium is simple columnar, intestine it is the same. Now in intestinal type of adenocarcinoma of stomach, intestinal metaplasia of stomach occurs. I don't get it , columnar has changed to columnar, how is this metaplasia. Thanks :)

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