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Papillary mucinous metaplasia of the endometrium as a possible precursor of endometrial mucinous adenocarcinoma.
Modern pathology : an official journal of the United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology, Inc - 1 Nov 2012
Yoo Su Hyun, Park Bong Hee, Choi Jene, Yoo Jin, Lee Shin-Wha, Kim Yong-Man, Kim Kyu-Rae
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Mucinous adenocarcinoma is an uncommon type of endometrial adenocarcinoma for which precursor lesions have yet to be clarified. During a review of noncancerous endometrial lesions in postmenopausal women, we found that mucinous endometrial glands showed variable degrees of epithelial changes that ranged from the formation of simple tubular glands to the formation of complex glands with papillary tufts, and some...
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