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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Feb 1.
Published in final edited form as: Cancer. 2010 Sep 22;117(3):554–562. doi: 10.1002/cncr.25460

Table 2.

Mucinous carcinomas involving the ovary- pathologic features associated with reviewer interpretation as primary ovarian mucinous carcinoma

Pathologic feature N with feature % cases with feature
diagnosed as primary*
Diameter <13 cm 16 --
Bilaterality 24 29
Nodularity 12 0
Surface involvement 22 23
Infiltrative invasion 34 23
Single neoplastic cells 28 21
Signet ring cells 9 33
Small glands/tubules 34 26
Hilar involvement 5 0
Necrotic luminal debris 8 0
Expansile growth pattern 17 88
Complex papillae 16 94
*

Number and % of cases with feature present interpreted by reviewer #1 as primary mucinous carcinoma.

Pathologic feature listed above the solid line have been associated with mucinous carcinoma metastatic to the ovary, while those below the line with primary mucinous ovarian carcinoma; from Lee and Young.(9)