pulmonary mucinous tumors
mucinous cystadenoma, multilocular cystic carcinoma, mucinous cystic tumor, cystic mucinous adenocarcinoma, mucinous cystic tumors of borderline malignancy, mucinous (colloid) carcinoma (MC), mucinous cystoadenocarcinoma, mucinous adenocarcinoma with signet-ring cells
Definition: Primary lung tumors in which neoplastic cells float in large mucin pools.
Types
mucinous cystadenoma
- localized cystic mass filled with mucin and surrounded by a fibrous wall lined by well-differentiated columnar mucinous epithelium
mucinous cystadenocarcinoma
- cystic adenocarcinoma with copious mucin production resembling tumors of the same name in the ovary, breast and pancreas
See also
primary mucin-rich tumors