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Clinical and pathological characteristics of mucinous adenocarcinoma in colon cancer: comparison with classic adenocarcinoma

Mucinous adenocarcinoma of the colon is defined by extracellular mucin occupying at least 50% of the tumour. Although it is often regarded as a distinct histological subtype, its clinicopathological profile remains variable across published series. We compared mucinous and classi...