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Mucinous cystadenocarcinoma breast emerges as an extremely exceptional, primary epithelial neoplasm arising within breast parenchyma. The epithelial carcinoma is constituted of tall columnar cells pervaded with abundant intracytoplasmic mucin and uniform, basally located nuclei. In contrast to variants such as mucinous carcinoma or colloid carcinoma breast with singularly extracellular mucin or signet ring cell carcinoma with specifically intracellular mucin, tumour cells display significant dispersal of extra-cytoplasmic mucin.

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8. Image 1 Courtesy: Libre pathology.
9. Image 2 Courtesy: Webpathology.com.