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→Prostatic ductal adenocarcinoma
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===General=== | ===General=== | ||
*Sometimes it is referred to as ''endometrioid'' or ''endometrial'' adenocarcinoma; both terms are discouraged.<ref name=pmid18773743>{{Cite journal | last1 = Samaratunga | first1 = H. | last2 = Delahunt | first2 = B. | title = Ductal adenocarcinoma of the prostate: current opinion and controversies. | journal = Anal Quant Cytol Histol | volume = 30 | issue = 4 | pages = 237-46 | month = Aug | year = 2008 | doi = | PMID = 18773743 }}</ref> | *Sometimes it is referred to as ''endometrioid'' or ''endometrial'' adenocarcinoma; both terms are discouraged.<ref name=pmid18773743>{{Cite journal | last1 = Samaratunga | first1 = H. | last2 = Delahunt | first2 = B. | title = Ductal adenocarcinoma of the prostate: current opinion and controversies. | journal = Anal Quant Cytol Histol | volume = 30 | issue = 4 | pages = 237-46 | month = Aug | year = 2008 | doi = | PMID = 18773743 }}</ref> | ||
* | *Not completely uncontroversial - may represent ''acinar adenocarcinoma'' with periurethral ducts involvement.<ref name=pmid10403300>{{Cite journal | last1 = Bock | first1 = BJ. | last2 = Bostwick | first2 = DG. | title = Does prostatic ductal adenocarcinoma exist? | journal = Am J Surg Pathol | volume = 23 | issue = 7 | pages = 781-5 | month = Jul | year = 1999 | doi = | PMID = 10403300 }}</ref> | ||
*More aggressive than conventional (acinar) prostate carcinoma. | |||
===Microscopic=== | ===Microscopic=== | ||
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Notes: | Notes: | ||
*Usually seen in association with conventional (acinar) prostate adenocarcinoma. | *Usually seen in association with conventional (acinar) prostate adenocarcinoma. | ||
**Proportion of ductal component should be quantified: | |||
***<10% ductal component of no prognostic significance.<ref name=pmid21383610>{{Cite journal | last1 = Amin | first1 = A. | last2 = Epstein | first2 = JI. | title = Pathologic stage of prostatic ductal adenocarcinoma at radical prostatectomy: effect of percentage of the ductal component and associated grade of acinar adenocarcinoma. | journal = Am J Surg Pathol | volume = 35 | issue = 4 | pages = 615-9 | month = Apr | year = 2011 | doi = 10.1097/PAS.0b013e31820eb25b | PMID = 21383610 }}</ref> | |||
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