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Mesothelioma and Pseudomyxoma peritonei: Incidence, Etiology, Diagnosis

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Pseudomyxoma peritonei and peritoneal are similar in predominant affection of peritoneum, low frequency of lymphogenic and hematogenic metastasis and lack of efficient treatment methods. Pseudomyxoma peritonei is a neoplastic disease that is characterized by mucinous carcinomatosis of the peritoneum and it always arises as a result of another tumor of various differentiation grades. Pseudomyxoma peritonei is a rare disease that shows significant difficulties for pathologic differentiation diagnosis from other tumors with intraperitoneal dissemination. Peritoneal mesothelioma (PM) is a primary peritoneal tumor with increasing incidence worldwide. Different histological subtypes with different tumor aggressiveness have been described. Accurate histopathological analysis of an adequate biopsy specimen is needed when a primary peritoneal tumor is suspected. The pattern of spread of PM is predominantly expansive more than infiltrative or haematological.

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Abdulaev, A.G., Polotskiy, B.E., Davydov, M.M. (2019). Mesothelioma and Pseudomyxoma peritonei: Incidence, Etiology, Diagnosis. In: Kiselevskiy, M., Abdulaev, A., Davydov, M. (eds) Malignant Mesothelioma and Pseudomyxoma . Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99510-6_1

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