Recommendations of Test of Prostate-specific Antigen along with Histopathological Examination for the Prostate Lesions

Introduction: Prostate disease is an important growing health problem, presenting a challenge to urologists, radiologists, and pathologists. Objectives: The aim of the study is to correlate prostatic-specific antigen test with histopathological examination in prostatic lesions and to recommend combine approach for management of the patients of prostatic lesions. Materials and Methods:This was a prospective study conducted at the department of pathology in a tertiary care center over 6 months. Data were collected from histopathology record department. The 2002 WHO classification was used to diagnose and classify prostate tumors. Gleason’s grading system was used for the cases of adenocarcinoma. Results: In our study, a total of 119 cases of prostatic lesions were noticed. The lesions diagnosed were benign prostatic hyperplasia (79% of cases), adenocarcinoma (6% of cases), prostatic intraepithelial neoplasia (4% of cases), stromal nodules of hyperplasia (4% of cases), and atypical adenomatous hyperplasia (4% of cases). A total of 3% of cases were inadequate. Majority of prostatic lesions were belonging to the 6th decade followed by the 7th decade. All cases of adenocarcinoma were belonging to the 6th decade. The test of prostatic-specific antigen was higher (more than 10 ng) in cases of adenocarcinoma. Conclusions: The study is conducted to see that combine approach of prostate-specific antigen and histopathological examination is useful for its recommendation, for better management of prostatic lesions in tertiary care center.

Linfangioma mesentérico / Mesentery lymphangioma

El linfangioma representa el 6 por ciento de los tumores benignos, y su localización más frecuente es la región cervical, seguida de la axila en el 95 por ciento de los casos. Solo un 5 por ciento tiene localización en otro sitio. Dentro de estos, los abdominales representan entre el 2 y el 5 por ciento , y los más frecuentes son los del mesenterio. Se presenta el caso de una paciente de 45 años con el diagnóstico de metrorragia disfuncional, que a pesar del tratamiento hormonal, aumentó en intensidad. Se le practicó un legrado diagnóstico, cuyo resultado fue hiperplasia adenomatosa con ligera atipia, y se le indicó una histerectomía abdominal, que se realizó sin dificultad. En el transcurso de esta intervención se llevó a cabo la extirpación de un tumor del mesenterio del yeyuno, cuyo diagnóstico histológico definitivo fue linfangioma mesentérico(AU)

The lymphangioma accounts for the 6 percent of the benign tumors and its more frequent location is the cervical region, followed by the axilla in the 95 percent of cases. Only the 5 percent is located in other site including the abdominal ones accounting for the 2 and the 5 percent and the more frequent are those of mesentery. This is the case of a patient aged 45 diagnosed with dysfunctional metrorrhagia that despite the hormonal treatment increased its intensity. A diagnostic curettage was made whose result was an adenomatous hyperplasia with a slight atypia prescribing an abdominal hysterectomy carried out without problem. During this intervention a yeyunal mesenteric tumor was removed with a definitive histological diagnosis of mesenteric lymphangioma(AU)

CT Findings of Atypical Adenomatous Hyperplasia in the Lung

OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to analyze the computed tomographic (CT) findings of atypical adenomatous hyperplasia (AAH) in the lung. MATERIALS AND METHODS: The CT findings of AAHs in eight patients were retrospectively reviewed. The CT findings of each AAH lesion were evaluated for multiplicity, location, shape, size and internal density of the lesion, the interface between the normal lung and the lesion, the internal features within the lesion and any change of the lesion on the follow-up CT scans (range: 33 to 540 days; average: 145.3 days). RESULTS: The eight patients consisted of three men and five women (age range: 43-71 years). Six of eight patients were asymptomatic. Four of them (50%) had synchronous malignancies in the lung: adenocarcinoma of the lung (n = 3), and metastatic squamous cell carcinoma from the uterus (n = 1). We could identify and evaluate eleven AAH nodules in seven patients on the CT scans. Three patients had multiple AAHs. Seven of the 11 lesions (64%) were located in the upper lobe. All the AAHs showed a well-defined oval or round shape and pure ground-glass opacity (GGO) without any solid component (size: 3.9x3 mm to 19x17 mm; internal attenuation: -467 to -785 HU). All the AAHs showed no change of their size and internal density on the follow-up CT scans. CONCLUSION: Atypical adenomatous hyperplasia is often associated with malignancy. This tumor is shown on CT as persistent well-defined oval or round nodular GGOs without solid components, and it does not change on the follow-up CT.

Multiple Atypical Adenomatous Hyperplasia Mimicking Lung to Lung Metastasis: A Case Report

Atypical adenomatous hyperplasia (AAH) is regarded as a precancerous lesion in the multistep process for carcinogenesis of pulmonary adenocarcinoma. AAH is found in up to 25% of the lung tissue adjacent to cancer, particularly adenocarcinoma and also in 2-4% of autopsy cases. Until now, its main clinical significance is that some tumor recurrences are the lesions that have progressed from undetected AAH or they are newly developed cancers arising from AAH during the follow-up after the resection of adenocarcinoma. We present here the case of a 58-year-old woman having a large main adenocarcinoma with multiple small AAHs that mimicked lung-to-lung metastasis. AAH should be considered in the differential diagnosis of multiple small nodules during the preoperative evaluation and also during the follow-up of lung cancer patients.