borderline mucinous tumour

A generic term for ovarian tumours of low malignant potential (no stromal invasion), which are lined by mucin-secreting cells and divided into intestinal type (85%), which resemble intestinal mucosa, and endocervical type, which resemble endocervical glands.

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