OBJECTIVES Although early reports suggested that smoking was not associated with ovarian cancer risk, recent studies have reported positive associations for cancers of the mucinous subtype. We sought to clarify the relationship between smoking and ovarian cancer by histological subtype. METHODS We conducted a systematic literature review and meta-analysis of studies investigating the associat...

CONTEXT Biliary obstruction secondary to intrabiliary mucin is a relatively rare presentation of malignant intraductal pancreatic mucinous tumor. We report a case of unresectable intraductal pancreatic mucinous tumor associated with obstructive jaundice secondary to intrabiliary mucin. This case and a review of the literature, highlight the difficulty in obtaining sustained palliation from jaun...

Mural nodules of ovarian mucinous borderline tumors are rare. In this study, we report a case of mural nodules of clear cell carcinoma in an intestinal type mucinous borderline tumor of the ovary. The patient was a 54-years-old woman presented with back and pelvic pain for 3 months. A right-sided multiloculated ovarian mass approximately 20 cm was identified on the CT scan. CA-125 was moderatel...

BACKGROUND Mucinous cystadenocarcinoma is the second most common etiology of appendiceal mucocele. We report a relatively rare case of a giant appendiceal mucocele caused by mucinous cystadenocarcinoma, which occupied the entire abdomen of an adult woman. CASE PRESENTATION A 63-year-old woman presented with a chief complaint of abdominal distention. Imaging studies showed a giant cystic mass ...

Primary retroperitoneal mucinous cystic tumors are extremely rare. These tumors can be classified as a primary retroperitoneal mucinous cystadenoma with or without borderline malignancy or primary retroperitoneal mucinous cystadenocarcinoma. The most common of these is primary retroperitoneal mucinous cystadenoma, which almost always occurs in female patients; only ten cases have been reported ...

Case of a Retroperitoenal Mucinous Cystadenoma in Korea: A Case Report. The Korean Journal of Internal Medicine 2004;19:282-284. 6. Matsubara M, Shiozawa T, Tachibana R, Hondo T, Osasda K, Kawaguchi K, et al. Primary retroperitoneal mucinous cystadenoma of borderline malignancy: a case report and review of the literature. International Journal of Gynecological Pathology 2005;24:218–23. 7. Penne...

Mucinous cystic neoplasms of the pancreas are rare primary tumors. They have pathologic and clinical similarities to biliary cystadenomas of the liver and mucinous cystic tumors of the ovary. Mucinous cystic neoplasms of the pancreas typically affect middle-aged women and arise in the tail of the pancreas. Gross pathologic and imaging features usually are those of a large, multilocular cystic m...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of our study was to determine useful CT criteria for differentiating serous oligocystic adenomas of the pancreas from other similarly presenting neoplasms, such as mucinous cystadenoma and intraductal papillary mucinous tumor of the branch duct type. MATERIALS AND METHODS Forty-one patients with histologically confirmed macrocystic neoplasms of the pancreas were enrolled...

Mucinous cystadenomas of the liver are rare cystic neoplasms, often mistaken for simple cysts or hydatid liver. They generally benign tumors, discovered incidentally on imaging during independent surgeries. Despite their tendency to grow slowly, mucinous can reach symptomatic dimensions. And given potential malignant transformation into cystadenocarcinomas, a misdiagnosis have serious secondary...

Warshaw, A. L, Compton, C. C., Lewandrowski, K., Cardenosa, G. and Mueller, P. R. (1990) Cystic tumors of the pancreas. New clinical, radiologic and pathologic observations in 67 patiems. Annals ofSurgery, 212, 432-445. Within a 12-year period we treated 67 patients (49 women, 18 men; mean age, 61 years) with cystic neoplasms of the pancreas, including 18 serous cystic adenomas, 15 benign mucin...