OBJECTIVE To compare clinicopathological characteristics and survival rates between patients with primary ovarian mucinous carcinoma and those with primary ovarian serous carcinoma. METHODS This retrospective study reviewed archival tumour specimens, originally diagnosed as primary ovarian mucinous carcinoma, using refined histological criteria. All patients were contacted to establish surviv...

PURPOSE The aim of this study was to assess the expression of metabolism-related proteins including glucose transporter 1 (Glut-1), carbonic anhydrase IX (CAIX) and monocarboxylate transporter 4 (MCT4) in breast mucinous carcinoma and to evaluate the implications of the results. METHODS Immunohistochemical staining for Glut-1, CAIX, and MCT4 was performed on tissue sections from 59 cases of m...

Mucinous carcinoma is a type of ductal carcinoma with a low malignant potential. These tumors account for 2% of the breast carcinomas. These neoplasms are characterized by tumor cells floating in the pools of mucin. The prognosis of pure mucinous carcinoma is favourable when compared to the invasive ductal carcinoma, not otherwise specified. We report a case of 80years female patient presenting...

Mucinous lesions of the breast represent a broad spectrum of entities, which may pose a diagnostic challenge on fine-needle aspiration cytology. Mucinous carcinomas are so bland cytologically that they may be misdiagnosed as benign lesions, especially in cellpoor samples with ample mucin [1]. Assessment of cytologic details in conjunction with the radiological and clinical findings leads to a m...

BACKGROUND: Ovine pulmonary adenocarcinoma (OPA) is a worldwide contagious bronchioalveolar carcinoma caused by infection of a beta retrovirus in sheep and less in goat. Neoplastic proliferation of type II pneumocytes and clara cells, produce papillary to acinar tumoral pattern with infiltration of macrophages, lymphocytes and plasma cells and interstitial fibrosis tissue. OBJECTIVES: This stud...

BACKGROUND Mucinous carcinoma (also known as colloid carcinoma) is a particular type of breast cancer characterized by the presence of extracellular mucin and is linked with a more favorable prognosis than invasive breast carcinoma of no special type. Mucinous carcinoma of the breast is an uncommon form of breast tumor, often presenting as a lobulated, moderately well circumscribed mass on mamm...

Primary mucinous carcinoma of the skin is a rare sweat-gland neoplasm with a high recurrence rate. We report a new case of a primary recurrent mucinous carcinoma of the face in a 59-year-old man. Histopathologic examination of the neoplasm showed epithelial islands floating in mucoid material compartmentalized by fibrous septa. Cytokeratin 7, protein S100, estrogen and progesterone receptors we...

INTRODUCTION Mucinous carcinoma is a variant of invasive breast carcinomas that accounts for 2% of them and has a better prognosis in contrast to the non-specific invasive carcinoma. They regularly are positive for estrogen and progesterone receptors and, generally, they do not overexpress HER2. When HER2 is positive, the first line treatment is trastuzumab; although the resistance is 52-89% fo...

Monoclonal antibodies (Mabs) against human ovarian mucinous and serous carcinoma were obtained by the Mab technique. Their reactivities against human tumors were tested by indirect immunofluorescence. One of the Mabs, named 4C7, derived from the spleen cells of mice immunized with mucinous carcinoma line OVA-1, reacted to ovarian mucinous carcinoma, endometrioid carcinoma, and mesonephroid carc...

BACKGROUND Primary mucinous carcinoma of the thyroid gland is a rare disease; only 6 cases of primary mucinous carcinoma of the thyroid have been previously reported. Primary mucinous carcinoma of the thyroid gland with incomplete tumor resection tends to be associated with a poor prognosis, resulting in death within a few months. An early and appropriate diagnosis may contribute to improvement...