Mucinous adenocarcinoma of posterior urethra. Report of a case
Rosenblat Yvgenia1, David Ben Meir, Joseph Sibi
1Department of Pathology, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Sackler School of Medicine, Hasharon Hospital, Petah Tikva, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel.
Abstract:
Primary carcinoma of the male urethra accounts for less than 1% of malignancies in males. Mucinous adenocarcinoma of the urethra is extremely rare, and its biologic behavior is not well known. We report a case of mucinous adenocarcinoma showing the histologic features of colloid adenocarcinoma that appears to have evolved either by neoplastic degeneration of goblet cells found in the urethral epithelium or by malignant degeneration of persistent glandular elements of uretheritis cystica and glandularis.
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