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Primary retroperitoneal mucinous cystadenocarcinoma (PRMC) is a rare tumour, similar to its ovarian counterpart but without any evidence of ovarian, pancreatic or another extra-retroperitoneal origin. Histogenesis of this neoplasm remains uncertain. Mucinous or coelomic metaplasia of retroperitoneal mesothelium has been recently proposed as its origin. In a 43-year-old woman with a 15-cm cystic lesion in the right retroperitoneum mucinous cystadenocarcinoma was diagnosed, and no primary tumour was identified. Two peritoneal endometriotic foci were found on further surgery. We suggest a common histogenesis for PRMC and these endometriotic foci.
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Carabias, E., Muñoz, H.G., Dihmes, F.P. et al. Primary mucinous cystadenocarcinoma of the retroperitoneum. Vichows Archiv A Pathol Anat 426, 641–645 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00192121
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