/acinar prostate mucinous adenocarcinoma

acinar prostate mucinous adenocarcinoma

MONDO:0006067

Also Known As

acinar colloid prostate adenocarcinomacolloid adenocarcinoma of prostatecolloid adenocarcinoma of the prostatecolloidal adenocarcinoma of prostatecolloidal adenocarcinoma of the prostatecolloidal prostate adenocarcinomamucinous adenocarcinoma of prostatemucinous adenocarcinoma of the prostateprostate colloid adenocarcinoma

Definition

A usually aggressive morphologic variant of acinar adenocarcinoma of the prostate gland characterized by the presence of lakes of extracellular mucin. This diagnosis applies when at least 25% of the resected tumor contains extracellular mucin.