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. 1988 Oct;41(10):1068–1072. doi: 10.1136/jcp.41.10.1068

Influence of mucinous components on survival in colorectal adenocarcinomas: a multivariate analysis.

T B Halvorsen 1, E Seim 1
PMCID: PMC1141689  PMID: 2848059

Abstract

Of 534 resected colorectal adenocarcinomas, 165 (31%) contained some mucinous components; these represented the main part of the tumour in 67 (13%). Of the mucin containing tumours, 63 (38%) were in the right colon compared with 50 (13%) of the non-mucinous ones (p less than 0.001). Patients with predominantly mucinous tumours were significantly older than those with non-mucinous tumours, and they tended to present with tumours at a more advanced stage. A multivariate analysis did not show any significant independent prognostic influence of the mucinous component except when this had a predominantly signet ring cell pattern.

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