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This article deals with how to cut-up '''cystoprostatectomy''' specimens.
This article deals with '''cystoprostatectomy grossing''', also '''cystoprostatectomy''' [[cut-up]].


==Introduction==
==Introduction==
Cystoprostatectomies are done for [[bladder cancer]].
Cystoprostatectomies are done for [[bladder cancer]]. Granular areas of the [[urinary bladder|bladder]] often correlate with [[urothelial carcinoma in situ|carcinoma in situ]].
 
Lack of a tumour is common in muscle invasive cases that had neoadjuvant therapy; approximately 15% of cases are ypT0.<ref name=pmid22915241>{{Cite journal  | last1 = D'Souza | first1 = AM. | last2 = Pohar | first2 = KS. | last3 = Arif | first3 = T. | last4 = Geyer | first4 = S. | last5 = Zynger | first5 = DL. | title = Retrospective analysis of survival in muscle-invasive bladder cancer: impact of pT classification, node status, lymphovascular invasion, and neoadjuvant chemotherapy. | journal = Virchows Arch | volume = 461 | issue = 4 | pages = 467-74 | month = Oct | year = 2012 | doi = 10.1007/s00428-012-1249-4 | PMID = 22915241 }}</ref>
 
==Specimen opening==
*Orientation:
**Posterior - typically has serosa (shiny).
**Seminal vesicles - should be identified on the posterior.
*Inking:
**Anterior midline of prostate - green stripe.
**Anterior urinary bladder site of openning.
***Line 1: anterior bladder base toward upper left.
***Line 2: anterior bladder base toward upper right.
**Right prostate - blue.
**Left prostate - black.
*Opening:
**Cut along urethra through anterior prostate (bisect green stripe painted on anterior prostate).
**Continue cut through urethra upward to left and upward to right - such that anterior bladder wall can be flipped upward.
**Should be pinned open on a large block of paraffin wax.
***A paper towel should be placed behind the specimen - between the specimen and paraffinx wax.
*Place specimen(s) in [[formalin]].


==Protocol==
==Protocol==
Specimen:
*Type: cystoprostatecomy.
*Specimen weight: ___ grams.
*Specimen dimensions (superior-inferior, left-right, anterior-posterior): ___ x ___ x ___ cm.
*Prostate dimensions (superior-inferior, left-right, anterior-posterior): ___ x ___ x ___ cm.
*Left seminal vesicle:  ___ x ___ x ___ cm.
*Right seminal vesicle:  ___ x ___ x ___ cm.
*Inking: green - anterior prostate, blue - right prostate, black - left prostate, green - urinary bladder openning.
Tumour:
*Size of tumour (superior-inferior, left-right, anterior-posterior): ___ x ___ x ___ cm.
*Location of tumour: [dome, left, right, anterior, posterior, trigone].
*Nearest margin: [soft tissue margin / urethral / ureteric ].
*Distance to nearest margin: ___.
*Configuration: [ulcerated / exophytic].
*Appearance: [tan/brown / white], [firm / friable].
*Extension into perivescicular adipose tissue: [not identified, present].


Representative sections:
Representative sections:
*Urethral resection margin on edge.
*Urethral resection margin/apex of prostate [[on edge margin|on edge]]. §
*Posterior prostate, posterior bladder neck and posterior-inferior bladder -- one section, divided to fit into multiple blocks.
*Ureteral surgical (or specimen) margins - left and right ‡ ([[en face margin|en face]]).  
*Sagittal section of posterior prostate, posterior bladder neck and posterior-inferior bladder divided into multiple blocks.
*Left prostate - mid part of gland.
*Left prostate - mid part of gland.
*Right prostate - mid part of gland.
*Right prostate - mid part of gland.
*Left parasagittal section † of the bladder neck and prostate gland.
*Right parasagittal section † of the bladder neck and prostate gland.
*Bladder tumour - 1 section/cm.
*Bladder tumour - 1 section/cm.
**Section with deepest invasion.
**Section with deepest invasion.
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*Left bladder wall.
*Left bladder wall.
*Right bladder wall.
*Right bladder wall.
*Anterior bladder wall.
*Posterior bladder wall.
*Dome of bladder.
*Dome of bladder.
*Trigone of bladder.
*Trigone of bladder.


===Protocol notes===
===Protocol notes===
*§ This is how it is done in [[prostatectomy|prostatectomies]].
*† The parasagittal sections of the bladder and prostate are important for staging.
**Invasion into the prostatic stroma is pT4.
*‡ Should be in separate blocks ''or'' inked with different colours (such that they can be separated at time of microscopy).


===Alternate approaches===


===Alternate approaches===
==See also==
==See also==
===Related protocols===
===Related protocols===
*[[Radical prostatectomy]].
*[[Radical prostatectomy]].
*[[Radical cystectomy]].


==References==
==References==
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