1. Mucinous Cystadenocarcinoma: A Rare Variant of Breast Carcinoma: Case Report
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Mithat Çamlibel, Isın Pak, Mustafa Bozgül, and Funda Atalay
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Pathology ,medicine.medical_specialty ,business.industry ,Mucin ,General Medicine ,Columnar Cell ,medicine.disease ,Signet ring cell carcinoma ,Carcinoma ,medicine ,Adenocarcinoma ,Mucinous carcinoma ,Mucinous cystadenocarcinoma ,Breast carcinoma ,business - Abstract
ABS TRACT A variety of carcinomas of the breast are characterized by production of abundant ex tracelluler and/or intracelluler mucin. Among these are mucinous (colloid) carcinoma, mucinous cystadenocarcinoma, columnar cell mucinous carcinoma and signet ring cell carcinoma. This car cinoma is usually composed of tall, columnar cells with basally located nuclei and abundant intra cytoplasmic mucin and appears either cystic (mucinous cyst adenocarcinoma) or solid (columnar cell mucinous carcinoma). We report a case of progesteron receptor positive mucinous cystadenocarci noma of the breast in a 49-year-old women. Primary mucinous cystadenocarcinoma is an extremely rare tumor of the breast. Only eight previous cases have been reported. All of them were hormon independent tumors.
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- 2010
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