background the incidence of prostatic abscess (pa) has markedly declined with the widespread use of antibiotics and the decreasing incidence of urethral gonococcal infections. objectives to evaluate different treatment methods for prostatic abscess and to describe technical points that will improve the outcome of transurethral (tur) drainage of prostatic abscess. patients and methods we perform...

BACKGROUND To determine the frequency of various histologic types of primary solid malignant neoplasms in males and females, in our practice, in a large series of surgical biopsies. METHODS A retrospective study of 20,000 consecutive surgical biopsies in the section of Histopathology, Aga Khan University Hospital (AKU), Karachi, in 2004. RESULTS Squamous cell carcinoma of oral cavity was th...

The appearance of several unusual tumours in the prostate has resulted in questions being raised concerning their histogenesis; moreover, some of these tumours have prognoses that are quite unlike those of prostatic adenocarcinoma. Unusual neoplasms involving the prostate have been described in recent years, including mucinous cystadenocarcinoma, neuroendocrine cancer, lymphoma, spindle cell ne...

With the report of the production of ACTH by non-endocrine neoplastic tissue, Meador and associates set the stage for increasing clinical awareness of ectopic hormone production from a variety of neoplasms, bronchial adenomas and oat cell carcinoma of the lung in particular. The clinical syndromes are those expected from excess secretion of ACTH, ADH, parathyroid hormone, growth hormone, insuli...

Mutational inactivation of the retinoblastoma gene (RB) is found in all retinoblastomas and in a subset of other human neoplasms, including sarcomas of bone or soft tissue and carcinomas of lung or breast. Exogenous copies of wild-type RB have been shown to suppress the tumorigenicity of several types of tumor cells with endogenous RB mutations, including a previously described human prostatic ...

When estimating survival from cancer registry data, there are several decisions to be made concerning record selection and method of calculation. For instance, should one use relative or disease-specific survival and how should one handle 'autopsy only' cases and cases with unknown cause of death. This study evaluates the effects of such decisions for survival from colorectal and prostate cance...

Thirty cases of benign prostatic hyperplasia and 30 cases of prostatic adenocarcinoma were selected and stained by AgNOR (argyrophilic staining of the nucleolar organizer region) method. Specimens were obtained by either prostatectomy (open!TIJR) or needle biopsy of the prostate. In this study, the sections of prostatic adenocarcinoma were reviewed. 6 cases were diagnosed as well-differen...

The first finding of bladder prostatic type polyp (PTP) was reported in 1894 by Jores.1 The lesion was located under the mucosa of the upper urethra and in the bladder neck. Benign PTPs have been described in adult male urethra, trigone, interureteral ridge and urethral orifice as yet. Most PTPs of the bladder have interspersed islands or complete covering of transitional epithelium on the surf...

 Background and Objectives:Rapid processing of histopathological specimens and decreased turnaround time is important to fulfill the needs of clinicians treating sick patients, so the present study was conducted to compare the time taken and quality of sections in processing of prostatic tissue by rapid microwave and conventional techniques using morphometry. Methods: Four to five mm thick p...