Prostate pointers and pitfalls: the 10 most prevalent problems in prostate biopsy interpretation.

摘要: As small volumes of prostate cancer are being detected with ever-increasing frequency, the pathologist is challenged to make more diagnostically out less. This photoessay explores ten diagnostic problems that noted regularity by a provider second opinions in biopsy interpretation. These include: suboptimal submission cores, atypia size focus concern, cytologic ambiguity issues ordering and interpreting immunostains, arising high-grade prostatic intraepithelial neoplasia, benign mimics cancer, omitting mention extraprostatic tumor extension or Gleason pattern 5, not recognizing intraductal carcinoma, differential diagnosis urothelial versus origin.