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'''Metaplastic carcinoma''' is a type of epithelial cancer (carcinoma). Metaplastic carcinomas are tumours that arise from metaplastic tissue.

They often contain both epithelial and mesenchymal elements.<ref name=pmid9261471>{{Cite journal  | last1 = Patel | first1 = NK. | last2 = McKee | first2 = PH. | last3 = Smith | first3 = NP. | last4 = Fletcher | first4 = CD. | title = Primary metaplastic carcinoma (carcinosarcoma) of the skin. A clinicopathologic study of four cases and review of the literature. | journal = Am J Dermatopathol | volume = 19 | issue = 4 | pages = 363-72 | month = Aug | year = 1997 | doi =  | PMID = 9261471 }}</ref><ref name=pmid17519625>{{Cite journal  | last1 = Kantrow | first1 = SM. | last2 = Boyd | first2 = AS. | title = Primary cutaneous metaplastic carcinoma: report of a case involving angiosarcoma. | journal = Am J Dermatopathol | volume = 29 | issue = 3 | pages = 270-3 | month = Jun | year = 2007 | doi = 10.1097/DAD.0b013e3180332b53 | PMID = 17519625 }}</ref>

Not otherwise specified, it usually refers to:
*[[Metaplastic breast carcinoma]].

==Non-breast metaplastic carcinomas==
It may refer to: 
*Metaplastic carcinoma of the [[skin]].<ref name=pmid9261471>{{Cite journal  | last1 = Patel | first1 = NK. | last2 = McKee | first2 = PH. | last3 = Smith | first3 = NP. | last4 = Fletcher | first4 = CD. | title = Primary metaplastic carcinoma (carcinosarcoma) of the skin. A clinicopathologic study of four cases and review of the literature. | journal = Am J Dermatopathol | volume = 19 | issue = 4 | pages = 363-72 | month = Aug | year = 1997 | doi =  | PMID = 9261471 }}</ref><ref name=pmid17519625>{{Cite journal  | last1 = Kantrow | first1 = SM. | last2 = Boyd | first2 = AS. | title = Primary cutaneous metaplastic carcinoma: report of a case involving angiosarcoma. | journal = Am J Dermatopathol | volume = 29 | issue = 3 | pages = 270-3 | month = Jun | year = 2007 | doi = 10.1097/DAD.0b013e3180332b53 | PMID = 17519625 }}</ref>
*Low-grade metaplastic carcinoma of the [[thymus]].<ref name=pmid10483586>{{Cite journal  | last1 = Yoneda | first1 = S. | last2 = Marx | first2 = A. | last3 = Müller-Hermelink | first3 = HK. | title = Low-grade metaplastic carcinomas of the thymus: biphasic thymic epithelial tumors with mesenchymal metaplasia--an update. | journal = Pathol Res Pract | volume = 195 | issue = 8 | pages = 555-63 | month =  | year = 1999 | doi = 10.1016/S0344-0338(99)80005-3 | PMID = 10483586 }}</ref>

==See also==
*[[Carcinosarcoma]].
*[[Sarcomatoid carcinoma]].

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