An automated approach based on routinely-processed, whole-slide immunohistochemistry (IHC) was implemented to study co-localized protein expression in tissue samples. Expression of two markers was chosen to represent stromal (CD31) and epithelial (Ki-67) compartments in prostate cancer. IHC was performed on whole-slide sections representing low-, intermediate-, and high-grade disease from 15 pa...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether contrast-enhanced harmonic ultrasonography can be used to predict the aggressiveness of prostate cancer. MATERIALS AND METHODS Contrast-enhanced harmonic ultrasonography was performed in 103 patients suspected of prostate cancer before biopsy. Time intensity curves were reconstructed for systematic biopsy sites and sonographic abnormalities. The characteristics ...

PURPOSE Although the perception exists that biochemical outcome in patients with a Gleason score of 7 with dominant pattern 4 histology is inferior to that of patients with a Gleason score of 7 with a primary Gleason grade of 3, conflicting conclusions have been reported for radical prostatectomy and brachytherapy. In this study, we evaluate the effect of the dominant histologic pattern in Glea...

BACKGROUND Recognition of Gleason pattern 4 in prostatic needle biopsies is crucial for both prognosis and therapy. Recently, it has been recommended to record percent pattern 4 when Gleason score 7 cancer is the highest grade in a case. METHODS Four hundred and five prostate needle core biopsies received for a second opinion at our institution from February-June, 2015 were prospectively diag...

BACKGROUND Discordance between the Gleason scores of prostate needle biopsies and radical prostatectomy specimens has been reported by several investigators. We conducted this study to determine if increasing the number of prostate needle biopsies in patients with prostate cancer improves the accuracy of Gleason scores in the Taiwanese population. METHODS Between March 2000 and September 2009...

Identifying biological differences between benign lesions and malignant prostatic cancer (PC) may facilitate precise indication for more aggressive post-operative treatment. Therefore, we examined immunohistochemically histological specimens from 140 PC patients treated with radical surgery. The mean age of the patients was 62.9 ±6.2 (range 49.0-77.0) years. There were 13 (9.3%) at pTNM stage 1...