Atlas of Prostatic Cytology

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

   • Wolfgang Leistenschneider, Reinhard Nagel

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3. The Technical Bases of Aspiration Biopsy

   • Wolfgang Leistenschneider, Reinhard Nagel

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4. Cytological Microscopy

   • Wolfgang Leistenschneider, Reinhard Nagel

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5. Normal Findings

   • Wolfgang Leistenschneider, Reinhard Nagel

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6. Atypia

   • Wolfgang Leistenschneider, Reinhard Nagel

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7. Secondary Findings

   • Wolfgang Leistenschneider, Reinhard Nagel

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8. Artefacts

   • Wolfgang Leistenschneider, Reinhard Nagel

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9. Primary Diagnosis of Carcinoma

   • Wolfgang Leistenschneider, Reinhard Nagel

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10. Grading of Prostatic Carcinoma

    • Wolfgang Leistenschneider, Reinhard Nagel

    Pages 81-106

11. Treatment Control by Means of Regression Grading

    • Wolfgang Leistenschneider, Reinhard Nagel

    Pages 107-147

12. Sarcomas

    • Wolfgang Leistenschneider, Reinhard Nagel

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13. Secondary Tumors of the Prostate

    • Wolfgang Leistenschneider, Reinhard Nagel

    Pages 153-163

14. Prostatitis

    • Wolfgang Leistenschneider, Reinhard Nagel

    Pages 165-193

15. DNA Cytophotometry

    • Wolfgang Leistenschneider, Reinhard Nagel

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16. Results of Measurement of Nuclear DNA by Single-cell Scanning Cytophotometry in Prostatic Carcinoma

    • Wolfgang Leistenschneider, Reinhard Nagel

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17. Back Matter

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Diagnostic and exfoliative cytology has today achieved a status that few could have envisaged 20 years ago. While exfoliative cytology has long been employed in gynecological diagnosis, new and rewarding spheres have now developed in which cytological diagnosis plays an important role. Exfoliative cytology, for example, is widely employed as an aid in the continuous assessment of urinary tract tumors, and aspiration cytology in the diagnosis of thyroid dis­ eases. This has given rise to a growing demand for pathologists experienced in cytological diagnosis. However, clinicians with an interest in morphology were often the first to adopt these simple and safe methods, being naturally attracted by the chance to avoid conducting biopsy, which, in the last analysis, is nothing less than a surgical operation. In this Atlas of Prostatic Cytology Leistenschneider and Nagel expertly demonstrate what can be achieved when clinicians skilled in morphology take an interest in cytological methods. Not only do they have direct contact with the patient, but they also profit from immediately being in a position to assess the results of their diagnostic procedures by examining the specimen obtained. From the technical point of view aspiration biopsy of the prostate is by no means a simple procedure and the difficulties involved would seem to have been underestimated in the initial phase of enthusiastic acclaim. Consequently it has been not unusual for clinicians and pathologists to be disappointed by the high rate of unsatisfactory samples obtained by this method.

• biopsy
• cytology
• morphology
• prostate
• tumors

• Urologische Klinik und Poliklinik, Klinikum Charlottenburg, Freien Universität Berlin, Berlin 19, Germany

  Wolfgang Leistenschneider, Reinhard Nagel

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