On the basis of light microscopic and scanning and transmission ultrastructural observations, ovarian mucinous tumors of borderline malignancy contain two types of mucinous epithelium--an endocervical type and an intestinal type. The fully malignant tumors were composed solely of intestinal-type epithelium. These findings may have prognostic and therapeutic significance.

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