Items tagged “prostate”
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Benign prostatic hyperplasia
Benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH), also known as benign prostatic enlargement (BPE), is an extremely common condition in elderly men and is a major cause of bladder outflow obstruction.
Terminology
The term benign prostatic hypertrophy was formerly used for this condition, but since there is...
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Prostate cancer (staging)
Prostate cancer staging takes into account a TNM staging system (primary site, nodal and distant metastases), pretreatment PSA and histological grading. The Gleason score is used to determine the Grade Group.
A superseded staging system is the Whitmore-Jewett staging system.
Additionally, the...
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Benign prostatic hyperplasia
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15 May 2008
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Prostate carcinoma
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10 Apr 2009
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Urinary bladder diverticulum
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19 Mar 2010
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Prostatic sarcoma
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27 May 2010
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Prostate cancer
Prostate cancer ranks as the most common primary malignant tumour in men and the second most common cause of cancer-related deaths in men. Prostatic adenocarcinoma is by far the most common histological type and is the primary focus of this article.
Epidemiology
It is primarily a disease of th...
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Prostatic abscess (MRI)
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29 Sep 2010
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Prostatomegaly and bladder diverticulum
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06 Oct 2010
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Melanoma of the prostate with metastases to lung
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09 Oct 2010
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Primary prostatic malignant melanoma
Primary melanoma of the prostate is rare, and usually cannot be diagnosed on imaging alone. In many cases, it is believed that in fact, the tumour represents prostatic involvement by melanoma of the urethra.
Epidemiology
Primary malignant melanoma of the prostate represents both a tiny fractio...
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Tumours of the male urethra
Tumours of the male urethra are uncommon. They can be categorised both on the grounds of histology and location.
Histology
squamous cell carcinoma of the urethra: 80%
urothelial/transitional cell carcinoma of the urethra: 15% (predominantly posterior urethra)
adenocarcinoma of the urethra: 5...
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Primary urethral malignant melanoma
Melanoma of the urethra is a very rare tumour of the male urethra and often presents as an invasive prostatic mass. As such it is usually referred to as primary prostatic malignant melanoma.
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Prostate sarcoma
Prostate sarcomas are an uncommon and heterogeneous group of tumours arising from mesenchymal cells in and around the prostate (as opposed to the more common prostate adenocarcinoma which derives from the glandular tissue).
Pathology
In children, the most common tumour type is a prostatic rha...
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Prostate sarcoma
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10 Oct 2010
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Prostatomegaly
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20 Oct 2010
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Prostatomegaly
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20 Oct 2010
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Skeletal metastases
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07 Nov 2010
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Nuclear medicine
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Prostatic utricle cyst
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25 Apr 2011
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Benign prostatic hyperplasia
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03 Jul 2011
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