Bing Wang, Jianfei Yao, Ruiqing Ma, Danni Liu, Yiyan Lu, Guanjun Shi, Lubiao An, Ao Xia, Feng Chen, Shaojun Pang, Xichao Zhai, Guifeng Liu, Shifu Chen, Mingyan Xu, Lele Song, Hongbin Xu
Pseudomyxoma peritonei(PMP) is a rare disorder with unique pathological and genetic changes. Although several studies have reported the clinical features and mutational changes of PMP that originates from the appendix, few studies on PMP originating from the ovary have been reported due to its extreme rarity. In order to characterize the somatic mutational landscape and to investigate the prognosis predicting factors of ovary-originating PMP, we examined 830 cases of PMP and identified 16 patients with PMP that originated from the ovary...
January 5, 2021: International Journal of Cancer. Journal International du Cancer