Atypia in nonneoplastic prostate glands after radiotherapy for prostate cancer: Duration of atypia and relation to type of radiotherapy

American Journal of Surgical Pathology

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 206-212

  Magi Galluzzi, Cristina ^a   Sanderson, Harriete ^a   Epstein, Jonathan I ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Brachytherapy; External beam radiation; Postradiation atypia; Prostate

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEAM THERAPY; BIOPSY TECHNIQUE; BRACHYTHERAPY; CELL TRANSFORMATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE DURATION; EVALUATION; FIBROSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; HYALINE DEGENERATION; INTERSTITIAL RADIATION; MALE; MALIGNANT TRANSFORMATION; MINIMAL RESIDUAL DISEASE; PROSTATE CANCER; PROSTATE EPITHELIUM; PROSTATE HYPERTROPHY; RADIATION CARCINOGENESIS; RADIATION INJURY; RADIOISOTOPE THERAPY; RISK FACTOR; STROMA; TRANSURETHRAL RESECTION; TUMOR PROMOTION;

ADENOCARCINOMA; BRACHYTHERAPY; HUMANS; MALE; NEOPLASM, RESIDUAL; PROSTATE; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0037309280     PISSN: 01475185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000478-200302000-00009     Document Type: Article

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