ABSTRACT
The clinical and pathological materials of 83 cases of prostatic carcinoma (PC) were reviewed retrospectively and the tissue specimens of PC were marked with prostate-specific antigen (PSA). According to the criteria of Dhom's classification of prostatic carcinoma. 66 cases out of the 83 (79. 5%) were of the common variety of PC, 14 cases (10. 9%) were of the rare variety and 3 cases (3. 6%) could not be classified with Dhom's method. Among the 66 cases of common prostatic carcinoma, 41 cases (49. 4%) exhibited a pathological structure of u-riiforrn pattern and 25 cases (30. 1%) of pluriform pattern. Well-differentiated adenocarcinoma, cribriform carcinoma and carcinoid of the prostate were strongly positive to PSA marking; poorly-differentiated adenocarcinoma and almost all the prostatic carcinomas of the rare variety and with the structure of pluriform pattern were positive or weakly positive; undifferentiated solid carcinoma and small cell carcinoma were very weakly positive; and squamous cell carcinoma was negative. In addition, other methods for the pathological classification of prostatic carcinoma used currently at home and abroad were compared and discussed.