Mucinous breast carcinoma: clinical and cytological features, management and outcome

Abstract

The article presents the clinical and cytological features, management and clinical outcome of mucinous breast carcinomas in agroup of 162 patients. Mucinous breast carcinoma with extracellular mucus is a favorable prognostic factor . Early forms of the disease (I an d II stage) have been diagnosed in 85 % of cases. Remote metastases were revealed in 0.6 % in primary diagnosis. Within the study period the develop- ment of recurrence has not been recognized during initial stage. The mortality rate due metastatic disease has been observed in 5.4 % of pa- tients in the II stage and in 22.7 % in the III stage.

Keywords

• mucinous breast carcinoma, clinical and cytological diagnostics, clinical outcome