Cervical Mucinous Adenocarcinoma

**Semantic type:** Neoplastic Process

**Definition:** A mucinous adenocarcinoma arising from the endocervical glandular epithelium. It is characterized by the presence of malignant glandular cells that contain significant amount of intracytoplasmic mucin. Histologic variants include intestinal-type, signet ring-type, gastric-type, cervical invasive stratified mucinous adenocarcinoma, and mucinous adenocarcinoma, not otherwise specified. All histologic variants except gastric-type adenocarcinoma are associated with human papillomavirus infection.