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Background: Benign prostate hyperplasia (BPH) is the most common benign disease of human prostate. Currently BPH is associated with unregulated proliferation of connective tissue and glandular epithelium within the prostatic transition zone, and it has been described as relevant characteristic of BPH—the increase of the total number of cells, and not only an increase in cell size. To date, there are few studies on the quantitative morphology of glandular tree of BPH compared with normal prostate. The scarce investigations about this particular suggest that the glandular tree branches and expands as the hyperplastic transformation occurs in the prostate. Methods: To verify if this gland expansion and branching was similar to that occurs in the normal prostate, this study deals with the estimation of several stereological parameters as: labeling index for the proliferating cell nuclear antigen to quantify the rate of proliferation of prostate epithelium, average thickness of glandular epithelium, fraction of the volume occupied by the epithelium relative to the total prostate volume, connectivity density of prostate glands, to quantify the branching of prostate glands, and the average volume and the volume-weighted mean glandular volume of prostate acini to assess the mean size of the prostate acini and its variability. Results: All these estimates have been performed in prostate specific antigen immunostained sections from prostates of young men (controls) and in adenomectomy specimens from the adenofibromiomatous variety of BPH. Conclusion: We conclude that the epithelial proliferation is not the only factor intervening in the development of BPH. In addition, a more prolonged survival of epithelial population, together with some degree of hypertrophy of acini expressed by the increase of volume fraction and thickness of acinar epithelium, is relevant in order to the growth and expansion of the BPH glandular tree that shows more abundant and heterogeneous acinar sprouts than in normal prostate.

Quantitative Stereological Estimations of Structural Patterns of the Glandular Tree in Benign Hyperplasia of Prostate