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Prostatic carcinoma with melanosis
Author(s) -
Furusato Masakuni,
Matsumoto Izuru,
Kato Hiroyuki,
Takahashi Hiroyuki,
Kawashima Yoshio,
Wada Tetsuro,
Suzuki Masafumi,
Aizawa Shigeo
Publication year - 1989
Publication title -
the prostate
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.295
H-Index - 123
eISSN - 1097-0045
pISSN - 0270-4137
DOI - 10.1002/pros.2990150107
Subject(s) - melanosis , histogenesis , pathology , medicine , melanin , prostate , adenocarcinoma , carcinoma , stroma , lesion , dermatology , melanoma , biology , cancer research , cancer , immunohistochemistry , genetics
Melanosis in which melanin deposition is found in the epithelia and stroma or blue nevus of the prostate gland is an uncommon lesion, and the histogenesis is still unclear. To our knowledge, there have been only two case reports in which prostatic melanosis and prostatic adenocarcinoma were both present. This article reports a third case having this combination and discusses the existence of melanin pigment in the carcinoma cell with melanosis.