@Article{,
AUTHOR = {Konstantinos Stamatiou, Alevizos Alevizos, Anargiros Mariolis,
Despina Fanou, Anastasia Alevizou, Emmanouel Michalodimitrakis, Frank Sofras},
TITLE = {Adenocarcinomas of the prostatic duct in necropsy material},
JOURNAL = {Canadian Journal of Urology},
VOLUME = {14},
YEAR = {2007},
NUMBER = {2},
PAGES = {3502--3506},
URL = {http://www.techscience.com/CJU/v14n2/62416},
ISSN = {1488-5581},
ABSTRACT = {The general consensus about prostatic duct adenocarcinomas
is that they have a rather aggressive biological behavior. In
addition, studies or reports of latent adenocarcinoma of the
prostatic duct in necropsy material are scarce in the
literature. We report here three cases of adenocarcinoma of
the prostatic duct that were found incidentally among 39
cases of latent acinar prostate adenocarcinomas in necropsy
material. We examined the morphologic and histological
features of these prostatic duct adenocarcinomas, in order
to better understand their biological behavior. We identified
two cases of mixed ductal-acinar adenocarcinoma and
one case of pure ductal adenocarcinoma. The pure form had
a favorable histological differentiation, while the mixed
forms had intermediate histological differentiation
patterns. Invasiveness was related to both volume and
histological differentiation. The finding of prostatic ductal
adenocarcinomas among autopsy material, as well as some
of their histological features, suggest that these tumors might
have a similar biological potential as prostatic acinar cancer.},
DOI = {}
}