Complications associated with intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasms, such as acute pancreatitis, perforation, and fistula formation, have been documented. Intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasm with intratumoral hemorrhage is rare. To the best of our knowledge, there have been no previous reports of intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasm rupture and bleeding with intra-abdominal hemorrhage...

Mucinous pancreatic neoplasms are uncommon disorders classified as either mucinous cystic neoplasms (mucinous cystadenoma or cystadenocarcinoma) or the more recently described intraductal mucin hypersecreting neoplasms (IMHN), also termed mucinous ductal ectasia. The mucinous cystic neoplasms share many common features with IMHN's but remain distinct clinico-pathologic entities. These tumors ha...

background: improvements in imaging techniques has led to an increase in the number of diagnosed pancreatic cysts. although most of the detected cases are benign, a significant percentage of them are malignant or are potentially malignant. currently, endosonography, and analysis of cyst morphology, fine needle aspiration (fna) of the cyst contents, and measurement of the amylase and carcinoembr...

Pancreatic cysts are a complex group of benign, malignant, and premalignant lesions with diverse clinical, radiologic, and pathologic features. It is no longer believed that the vast majority of pancreatic cysts are pseudocysts, inclusion cysts, or benign neoplastic cysts that do not require follow-up. Our knowledge and understanding of neoplastic pancreatic cysts in general, and mucinous pancr...

Background The mucinous component is a special histologic factor in gastric adenocarcinoma. The aim of this study was to assess the prognostic significance of mucinous component in gastric adenocarcinoma according to proportion. Patients and methods Candidate patients with gastric adenocarcinoma were given radical D2 gastrectomies from September 2008 to May 2015 in our division. Clinicopathol...

BACKGROUND Elastography is widely used as a diagnostic tool for the diagnosis of invasive breast cancer. However, no study has yet shown if elastography for diagnosing mucinous carcinoma is as useful as that for diagnosing the usual invasive carcinoma. Mucinous carcinoma is considered as a soft tumor. In this study, we used elastography to evaluate the elasticity of mucinous carcinoma. METHOD...

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...

OBJECTIVE We performed a population-based analysis to compare the clinical characteristics of women with mucinous tumors with women with other epithelial tumors. STUDY DESIGN The Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results database was queried to identify all women with epithelial ovarian cancer diagnosed from 1988 to 2007. The natural history, clinical characteristics, and survival of women ...

BACKGROUND Mucinous carcinoma of the colon and rectum (mucinous CRC) is a histological subtype of colorectal adenocarcinoma for which there is little data on chemotherapy responsiveness. The purpose of this study was to investigate specifically the efficacy of fluorouracil-based first-line chemotherapy in patients with advanced mucinous CRC. PATIENTS AND METHODS All patients with advanced muc...

Mucinous carcinomas are uncommon histological types that affect several organ sites. Primary mucinous carcinomas of the ovary are distinct from other ovarian carcinoma types, but they can pose a particular challenge for correct diagnosis from metastases, which most usually originate from the colorectum. Correct diagnosis is the mainstay of treatment, because standard practice states that protoc...