OBJECTIVES To describe the presence of prostatic tissue in 46,XX patients with the classical form of congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH); to evaluate the sensitivity and specificity of prostatic specific antigen (PSA) measured in congenital adrenal hyperplasia patients with regard to the detection of prostatic tissue in pelvic MRI. METHODS We studied 52 children and adolescents, 32 with the ...

Magnetic resonance imaging was utilized in 18 patients with prostatic cancer and compared with the findings in normal volunteers (Pontes et al., 1985), benign prostatic hyperplasia (Hricak et al., 1983), acute prostatitis (Walsh and Jewett, 1980) and chronic prostatitis (ACS, 1986). Sixteen of the 18 patients with carcinoma demonstrated inhomogeneous signal intensity, however, a similar appeara...

Middle-aged men presenting with symptoms of voiding dysfunction are often misdiagnosed with benign prostatic hyperplasia, urethral stenosis or neurogenic bladder. Here, we report a rare case of a 46-year-old man with a chief complaint of continually voiding dysfunction, diagnosed with giant multilocular prostatic cysts. Computed tomography (CT) scans showed multiple and large multilocular prost...

Benign prostatic hyperplasia refers to an anatomic diagnosis, yet in practice it is typically diagnosed clinically on the basis of lower urinary tract symptoms and prostatic enlargement detected on manual rectal examination or transrectal ultrasonography (1). Over the past decade, since benign prostatic hyperplasia (2) and prostate cancer (3) were reviewed in this Journal, there has been a prol...

We present a systematic analysis of human prostatic fluid with two-dimensional gel electrophoresis (the ISO-DALT system) and a characterization of normal and disease-related protein patterns. A reference map for prostatic fluid proteins was established by analysis of pooled prostatic fluids from 80 men (age less than or equal to 50 years) without prostatic lesions. Proteins in prostatic fluid t...

Background: Benign prostatic hyperplasia is not a life threatening condition of men, but it often affects the quality in varying degrees. The success rate treating with conventional therapy limited, and physicians determine patient as candidate for surgery when medicinal approach fails. Though few case records are available past about homoeopathic medicines patients suffering from benign hyperp...

One hundred and six prostatic tissue samples obtained from transurethral resection were analysed for androgen and estrogen receptors. In 62 of these, progesterone and glucocorticoid receptors were also assayed. Steroid receptors were assayed using single saturation dose 3H-labelled ligand assays. Ninety percent of the 97 prostatic hyperplasia tissues and six of the nine prostatic carcinoma tiss...