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→Mucinous prostate carcinoma
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===General=== | ===General=== | ||
*Rare. | *Rare. | ||
*Most often Gleason 3+4 ~ 80% in one series of 47 cases.<ref name=pmid18300802>{{Cite journal | last1 = Osunkoya | first1 = AO. | last2 = Nielsen | first2 = ME. | last3 = Epstein | first3 = JI. | title = Prognosis of mucinous adenocarcinoma of the prostate treated by radical prostatectomy: a study of 47 cases. | journal = Am J Surg Pathol | volume = 32 | issue = 3 | pages = 468-72 | month = Mar | year = 2008 | doi = 10.1097/PAS.0b013e3181589f72 | PMID = 18300802 }}</ref> | |||
*The prognosis is similar or may be better than the conventional type of prostate cancer; however, this is not without controversy.<ref name=pmid18300802/> | |||
===Microscopic=== | ===Microscopic=== | ||