Prevalence of silent prostatic adenocarcinoma in 165 patients undergone cystoprostatectomy: A retrospective study
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- Published online on: March 1, 2001 https://doi.org/10.3892/or.8.2.269
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Abstract
The reported prevalence of prostatic adenocarcinoma (PCa) in adults represents only the . The present retrospective study was carried out to estimate the prevalence of the silent PCa in 165 subjects (median age: 69 years; range: 40-82) undergone radical cystoprostatectomy for bladder cancer. To this aim, 38 subjects had routinely prostatic sampling by histology (group A), whereas 127 had systematic pathological sampling of the gland (group B). Silent PCa was diagnosed in 17 subjects (9.7%): 1 subject was in the group A (0.7%) and 16 were in the group B (9%). The data suggest that systematic examination of the prostatic specimens should be performed in order to approach the real prevalence of silent PCa in adult population.
