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1
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What are the usual indications for prostate biopsy?

A

Elevated PSA

Palpalble nodule

History of abnormal biopsy

2
Q

Describe the low power features of prostatic adenocarcinoma.

A

Small individual glands infiltating among larger benign glands.

Crowded, cribriform glands

Mucin, crystalloids, or pink luminal secretions

NO desmoplastic response

3
Q

Describe the high power features of prostatic adenocarcinoma.

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Large, cherry-red nucleoli

Enlarged & hyperchromatic nuclei

Lack of basal cell layer

Mitoses (uncommon)

4
Q

What three features guarantee a diagnosis of prostatic adenocarcinoma?

A
  1. Perineural invasion
  2. Mucinous fibroplasia (hyalinized whorls of secretions)
  3. Glomeruloid forms
5
Q

What is Gleason grading?

How does it differ between cancer resections and biopsies?

A

A histologic grade determined by architecture–not cytology.

In cancer resections, the second number is the second most common population. In biopsies, it is the highest secondary grade.

6
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What are the features of Gleason grades 1 and 2?

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  1. Rarely used; a circumscribed nodule of uniform crowded glands.
  2. A circumscribed nodules of well-defined glands with minimal infiltration at the peirphery; less uniform than pattern 1.
7
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What are the features of Gleason grade 3?

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Highly infiltrative glands with discrete and individual gland profiles (can draw a circle around each gland)

8
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What are the features of Gleason grade 4?

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Fused and ill-defined glands, sheets of cribriform glands, poorly formed lumens.

9
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What are the features of Gleason grade 5?

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A complete absence of glandular differentiation, solid sheets and cords of cells, single cells.

10
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Why can’t Gleason 1/2 be diagnosed on biopsies?

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They can only be identified in the context of surrounding tissue.

11
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What features must be mentioned in the signout of a prostate biopsy?

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Number of involved cores, percentage involvement, size of foci.

Perineural invasion, extraprostatic extension.

12
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What is the clinical significance of prostatic intraepithelial neoplasia (PIN)?

A

It is considered a precursor lesion to prostate cancer but does not warrant excision or re-biopsy. Low-grade PIN is not reportable, but high-grade is.

13
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What is the morphologic appearance of prostatic intraepithelial neoplasia (PIN)?

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Glands with prominent papillary or micropapillary luminal surfaces. Can be cribriform but not back-to-back.

Darker and bluer glands.

Enlarged, hyperchromatic nuclei.

Retention of the basal cell layer (at least patchy)

14
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Name 7 mimics of prostate cancer.

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Adenosis

Atrophy

Basal cell hyperplasia

Cowper’s glands

Radiation changes

Seminal vesicle

Sclerosing adenosis

15
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Describe the morphologic appearance of prostatic adenosis.

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A hyperplastic lesion consisting of a lobular group of crowded glands which overlap with larger, benign glands. Can have nucleoli, but should have a basal layer.

16
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Describe the morphologic appearance of prostatic atrophy.

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Shrinkage of the cells forming the lumen, leaving rows of essentially flat nuclei. Small and irregular, angulated/staghorn appearing. Basal layer present.

17
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Describe the morphologic appearance of prostatic basal cell hyperplasia.

A

Denim-blue, oval, regular nuclei surrounding the glandular nuclei. Recognize the dual population and do not worry about the multiple layers. Immunostain if needed.

18
Q

Describe the morphologic appearance of Cowper’s glands.

What do they stain?

A

Mucous-filled secretory glands surrounding a coil of ducts. Lobular architecture with bland nuclei.

PAS+, PSA/PSAP-

19
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Describe the morphologic appearance of radiation changes in prostate.

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TOO much pleomorphism to be cancer. Atrophic cytoplasm and wildly pleomorphic nuclei.

20
Q

Describe the morphologic appearance of seminal vesicle.

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Very pleomorphic nuclei, like radiation atypia.

Golden globs of lipofuscin.

21
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Describe the morphologic appearance of prostatic sclerosing adenosis

A

Hyperplastic and proliferative lesion with a hypercellular stroma. Remember that prostate cancer does not induce a stromal reaction.

22
Q

How can one approach the presence of a few isolated abnormal glands?

A

Sign out as a focus of atypical glands (generating a repeat biopsy)

Immunostain for the basal layer (CK903, p63) or cancer (racemase).

23
Q

What are the margins of the radical prostatectomy?

A

Left and right vas deferens (rarely submitted)

Apical (distal) margin

Bladder neck margin

24
Q

How can anterior and posterior prostate be oriented histologically?

A

Posterior features neurovascular bundles (at the posterolaterla corners)

Anterior sections shoudl have smooth muscle bundles and a poorly defined capsule

(Verumontanum points anteriorly, too)

25
Q

What features define extraprostatic extension? How can it be assessed?

A

Presence of glands in the fat; not necessarily the same as a positive margin or capsular incision

Best appreciated at low power by following the contour of the edge of the prostate.

26
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What feature defines seminal vesicle invasion?

A

Tumor must be in the parenchyma of the seminal vesicle, not just be next to it.

27
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What are the morphologic features of prostatic ductal adenocarcinoma?

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Tall, stratified columnar cells making papillary or cribfriform structures. May grow into urethra as exophytic masses. Behaves like a Gleason 4 lesion.

28
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Name some other forms of carcinoma in the prostate.

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Mucinous carcinoma

Squamous cell carcinoma

Urothelial carcinoma

Sarcomatoid carcnoma

Basal cell carcinoma

29
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variants of usual prostate cancer.

A

Pseudohyperplastic carcinoma (mimics papillary architecture of benign hyperplasia)

Atrophic cancer (mimics atrophy)

Foamy gland cancer (abundant xanthomatous appearing cytoplasm)

30
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What are some prostatic stromal lesions?

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Benign stromal nodules, stromal tumors of uncertain malignant potential, and stromal sarcomas.

Most common is leiomyosarcoma.

Rhabdomyosarcoma in children.

31
Q
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Prostatic adenocarcinoma, low power.

Arrow: Adenocarcinoma

Arrowheads: Benign glands

32
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Benign prostatic glands

Arrowhead: Basal layer

Arrow: Papillary fronds

33
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Prostatic adenocarcinoma, high-power.

Arrowhead: Distinct nucleoli

Arrow: Benign adjacent glands

34
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Perineural invasion in prostatic adenocarcinoma

Arrow: Invasive malignant glands

35
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Gleason pattern 3

Arrow: Blue mucin in glands

36
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Gleason pattern 4

Arrow: Cribriform growth and adjacent fused glands

37
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Gleason pattern 5

Circle: Individual malignant invasive glands with prominent nucleoli

38
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High-grade prostatic intraepithelial neoplasia

Arrow: Larger and darker nucleoli with nucleoli

Arrowhead: Retained basal layer

39
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Atrophy

Arrow: Low cuboidal epithelium with attenuated cytoplasm

Arrowhead: Corpora amylacea

40
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Basal cell hyperplasia

Arrow: Cells with prominent nucleoli

Arrowhead: Benign epithelium

41
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Radiation atypia

Arrow: Pronounced nuclear pleomorphism

42
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Seminal vesicle

Arrowhead: Crowded, hyperchromatic nuclei

Arrow: Golden pigment

43
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Extraprostatic extension and perineural invasion.

Note, margin is negative.

44
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Ductal adenocarcinoma

Note tall columnar morphology with usual prostatic cytology.