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====Extraprostatic extension====
====Extraprostatic extension====
:Abbreviated ''EPE''.
:Abbreviated ''EPE''.
 
{{Main|Prostate cancer staging#Extraprostatic extension}}
=====General=====
*Extraprostatic extension (EPE) is difficult to assess in prostatectomy specimens.<ref name=pmid20802467>{{Cite journal  | last1 = Magi-Galluzzi | first1 = C. | last2 = Evans | first2 = AJ. | last3 = Delahunt | first3 = B. | last4 = Epstein | first4 = JI. | last5 = Griffiths | first5 = DF. | last6 = van der Kwast | first6 = TH. | last7 = Montironi | first7 = R. | last8 = Wheeler | first8 = TM. | last9 = Srigley | first9 = JR. | title = International Society of Urological Pathology (ISUP) Consensus Conference on Handling and Staging of Radical Prostatectomy Specimens. Working group 3: extraprostatic extension, lymphovascular invasion and locally advanced disease. | journal = Mod Pathol | volume = 24 | issue = 1 | pages = 26-38 | month = Jan | year = 2011 | doi = 10.1038/modpathol.2010.158 | PMID = 20802467 }}</ref>
**The prostate does NOT have a well defined capsule.
***Intraobserver agreement for EPE is fair-moderate and lower than for the surgical margin.<ref name=pmid18708939>{{Cite journal  | last1 = Evans | first1 = AJ. | last2 = Henry | first2 = PC. | last3 = Van der Kwast | first3 = TH. | last4 = Tkachuk | first4 = DC. | last5 = Watson | first5 = K. | last6 = Lockwood | first6 = GA. | last7 = Fleshner | first7 = NE. | last8 = Cheung | first8 = C. | last9 = Belanger | first9 = EC. | last10 = Amin | first10 = MB. | last11 = Boccon-Gibod | first11 = L. | last12 = Bostwick | first12 = DG. | last13 = Egevad | first13 = L. | last14 = Epstein | first14 = JI. | last15 = Grignon | first15 = DJ. | last16 = Jones | first16 = EC. | last17 = Montironi | first17 = R. | last18 = Moussa | first18 = M. | last19 = Sweet | first19 = JM. | last20 = Trpkov | first20 = K. | last21 = Wheeler | first21 = TM. | last22 = Srigley | first22 = JR. | title = Interobserver variability between expert urologic pathologists for extraprostatic extension and surgical margin status in radical prostatectomy specimens. | journal = Am J Surg Pathol | volume = 32 | issue = 10 | pages = 1503-12 | month = Oct | year = 2008 | doi = 10.1097/PAS.0b013e31817fb3a0 | PMID = 18708939 }}</ref>
*EPE, typically, upstages tumours from T2x to T3a.
 
=====Prostatectomy specimens=====
EPE is present in a prostatectomy if there is either:
#A "significant bulge" in the contour of the prostate at low power ''and'' no fibromuscular tissue surrounding the malignant cells.
#Malignant cells directly adjacent to peri-prostatic adipose tissue.
 
Note:
*The apex of the prostate gland may have some skeletal muscle. Thus, it is difficult to define extension at this site. EPE is not called at the apex by some pathologists; however, it is generally believed to exist.<ref name=pmid20802467/>
 
=====Prostate biopsy=====
EPE is present in prostate biopsy if:
*Tumour touches adipose tissue.<ref name=pmid17707261>{{Cite journal  | last1 = Epstein | first1 = JI. | last2 = Srigley | first2 = J. | last3 = Grignon | first3 = D. | last4 = Humphrey | first4 = P. | title = Recommendations for the reporting of prostate carcinoma. | journal = Hum Pathol | volume = 38 | issue = 9 | pages = 1305-9 | month = Sep | year = 2007 | doi = 10.1016/j.humpath.2007.05.015 | PMID = 17707261 }}</ref>
 
======Images======
<gallery>
Image: Prostate carcinoma with extraprostatic extension -- intermed mag.jpg | EPE - intermed. mag.
Image: Prostate carcinoma with extraprostatic extension -- high mag.jpg | EPE - high mag.
</gallery>


====Seminal vesicle invasion====
====Seminal vesicle invasion====
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