About The Medical Condition Pseudomyxoma Peritonei

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Pseudomyxoma Peritonei

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Pseudomyxoma Peritonei Medical Condition

What's The Definition Of The Medical Condition Pseudomyxoma Peritonei?

A condition characterized by poorly-circumscribed gelatinous masses filled with malignant mucin-secreting cells. Forty-five percent of pseudomyxomas arise from the ovary, usually in a mucinous cystadenocarcinoma (CYSTADENOCARCINOMA, MUCINOUS), which has prognostic significance. Pseudomyxoma peritonei must be differentiated from mucinous spillage into the peritoneum by a benign mucocele of the appendix. (Segen, Dictionary of Modern Medicine, 1992)

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