title: Retroperitoneal mucinous cystadenoma.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Retroperitoneal mucinous cystadenomas are rare tumors. Only 25 cases have been reported in the English literature until 2002. The histogenesis is unclear, diagnosis is never made preoperatively and surgery is the only treatment.
  
  
  METHODS
  We report an additional case.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, Hospital of Alcañiz, Lasierra Purroy 118 4 E, 50007 Zaragoza, Spain. lolada@terra.es
authors.forename: Dolores
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Arribas
authors.forename: Alfonso
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Cay
authors.forename: Alberto
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Latorre
authors.forename: Elena
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Córdoba
authors.forename: Fernando
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Martínez
authors.forename: Javier
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Lagos
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D018291:Cystadenoma, Mucinous / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D010535:Laparoscopy; D012186:Retroperitoneal Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D014463:Ultrasonography