Prostatic pseudohyperplasia carcinoma. Experiences and criteria.

• Main Authors: Ileana Franco Zunda (Author), Alfredo B. Quiñones Ceballos (Author), Antonio L. Moreno Otero (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Centro Provincial de Información de Ciencias Médicas. Cienfuegos, 2005-11-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
• Online Access: Connect to this object online.
• Notes: 1727-897X
• Keywords: neoplasmas de la próstata; hiperplasia prostática /diag; carcinoma / diag.; Medicine (General); R5-920; Public aspects of medicine; RA1-1270
• Source: Medisur, Vol 3, Iss 3, Pp 34-37 (2005)

<p><strong>Fundament:</strong> Prostatic deseases are a havoc in male population older than 45 years old. Pseudohyperplastic carcinoma is a non frecuent variety and hard to diagnose. <strong>Objective:</strong> to reevaluate prostatic hyperplasia diagnoses to identify pseudohyperplastic carcinomas. <strong>Methods:</strong> retrospective study in which the prostatic hyperplasia diagnoses of 2004 were reevaluated in the Uiversitary Hospital ¨Dr. Gustavo Aldereguia Lima¨, considering as a basis the criteria given by Julian Arista -Nasr, evaluated in his 2000 series, to determine which of them corresponded to pseudohyperplastic carcinomas. <strong>Results:</strong> of the 51 reevaluated cases, 4 pseudohyperplastic carcinomas were found, the neoplasia was arranged in nodules of well defined edges resembling glandular hyperplasia areas, 100% showed nucleomegaly, with cromatine preferably lax, as well as evident nucleoli ocassionally inconspicuous, pale pink dyed, cytoplasm of great size and amphophil. <strong>Conclussions:</strong> the cytologycal changes were the definite criteria to establish the pseudohyperplastic carcinoma diagnosis.</p>