Mucosal hyperplasia, mucinous cystadenoma, and mucinous cystadenocarcinoma of the appendix.A re-evaluation of appendiceal “mucocele”

Higa, Enrique; Rosaí, Juan; A. Pizzimbono, Carlos; Wise, Leslie

doi:10.1002/1097-0142(197312)32:6<1525::aid-cncr2820320632>3.0.co;2-c

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Mucosal hyperplasia, mucinous cystadenoma, and mucinous cystadenocarcinoma of the appendix.A re-evaluation of appendiceal “mucocele”

Published in Cancer • Dec 1, 1973

Authors:

Enrique Higa

Juan Rosaí

Carlos A. Pizzimbono

Abstract

The evaluation of 73 appendiceal lesions fulfilling the criteria of so-called “mucocele” showed that they comprise 3. distinctive clinicopathologic entities: 1) Focal or diffuse mucosal hyperplasia, with no epithelial atypia and mild distention of the lumen (18 cases). The microscopic pattern is hig...

Subject

Pseudomyxoma peritonei

Appendix

Mucocele

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