Distribution of gland‐like structures in human gallbladder adenocarcinomas possesses fractal dimension

Epithelial cells form tissue patterns of higher order such as gland‐like structures. A question arises whether distribution of those patterns in adenocarcinomas is subject to certain regularity.

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