ICD-11 classes
02 Neoplasms
Malignant neoplasms, except primary neoplasms of lymphoid,...
Malignant neoplasms of ill-defined or unspecified primary...
2D40 — Adenocarcinoma of unspecified site

ICD-11 2D40 — Adenocarcinoma of unspecified site

A common cancer characterised by the presence of malignant glandular cells. Morphologically, adenocarcinomas are classified according to the growth pattern (e.g., papillary, alveolar) or according to the secreting product (e.g., mucinous, serous). Representative examples of adenocarcinoma are ductal and lobular breast carcinoma, lung adenocarcinoma, renal cell carcinoma, hepatocellular carcinoma (hepatoma), colon adenocarcinoma, and prostate adenocarcinoma.

The diagnosis includes nothing.

The diagnosis excludes nothing.

It has no clarifying diagnoses.