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Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Ovarian intestinal type mucinous borderline tumors: are we ready for a nomenclature change?



Note: mucinous is not specific to ovarian cancer but found in other tumour sites and without expert pathology can be confused with mucinous gastrointestinal tumours

"At a National Cancer Institute-sponsored workshop it was proposed that the borderline category of ovarian intestinal-type mucinous tumors (OInMTs) could be eliminated if the apparent benign behavior of these tumors could be confirmed..."

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