mucinous adenocarcinoma
MONDO:0004957Mondo
Findings
No curated finding names mucinous adenocarcinoma yet. Everything below is reference data from Mondo, HPO and GenCC, not evidence about what affects it.
Definition
An invasive adenocarcinoma composed of malignant glandular cells which contain intracytoplasmic mucin. Often, the infiltrating glandular structures are associated with mucoid stromal formation. It may arise from the large and small intestine, appendix, stomach, lung, ovary, breast, corpus uteri, cervix, vagina, and salivary gland.
Definition from the Mondo Disease Ontology (MONDO:0004957), read 2026-09-29. CC BY 4.0.
Where it sits
- Narrower terms (17)
- acinar prostate mucinous adenocarcinoma
- breast mucinous carcinoma
- cervical mucinous adenocarcinoma
- colloid carcinoma of the pancreas
- colon mucinous adenocarcinoma
- endometrial mucinous adenocarcinoma
- extrahepatic bile duct mucinous adenocarcinoma
- fallopian tube mucinous adenocarcinoma
- gallbladder mucinous adenocarcinoma
- lung colloid adenocarcinoma
- mucinous cystadenocarcinoma
- mucinous gastric adenocarcinoma
- mucinous pancreas adenocarcinoma
- mucoepidermoid carcinoma
- ovarian mucinous adenocarcinoma
- rectum mucinous adenocarcinoma
- salivary gland mucinous adenocarcinoma
Other names
12 names
Resolves to: mucinous adenocarcinoma
- Also called
- adenocarcinoma, mucinous, malignantcolloid adenocarcinomacolloid carcinomagelatinous adenocarcinomagelatinous carcinomamucin-producing adenocarcinoma (morphologic abnormality)mucinous carcinomamucinuos carcinomamucoid adenocarcinomamucoid carcinomamucous adenocarcinomamucous carcinoma