Prostatic pseudohyperplasia carcinoma. Experiences and criteria.

• Main Authors: Ileana Franco Zunda, Alfredo B. Quiñones Ceballos, Antonio L. Moreno Otero
• Format: Article
• Language: Spanish
• Published: Centro Provincial de Información de Ciencias Médicas. Cienfuegos 2005-11-01
• Series: Medisur
• Subjects: neoplasmas de la próstata; hiperplasia prostática /diag; carcinoma / diag.
• Online Access: http://www.medisur.sld.cu/index.php/medisur/article/view/120

<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>