a simple quantitative method used in conjunction with the diastase digestion-alcian blue-pas ( d-ab-pas ) technique was employed in a retrospective study of 135 gastrectomy carcinomas , and in a range of 57 unrelated metastatic adenocarcinoma cases of confirmed origin , to determine what proportion of malignant cells/glands contained neutral mucin only , as against acidic mucin or mixtures of both acid and neutral types .
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metastatic
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malignant cells