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- Title
Amyloidosis of seminal vesicles; incidence and pathologic characteristics.
- Authors
Argon, Asuman; Sımşır, Adnan; Sarsik, Banu; Tuna, Burçin; Yörükoğlu, Kutsal; Nıflıoğlu, Gülen Gül; Sen, Sait
- Abstract
Amyloidosis is a rare disease with various etiologies with extracellular amyloid protein depositions. At present, at least 26 distinctive amyloid forms have been detected with different clinical importance and treatment. They have characteristic staning fetaures with Congo red. Amyloid may be detected in 2-10% of prostates that have been removed because of hyperplasia or carcinoma. Amyloidosis of seminal vesicles is accepted as senil amyloidosis and it is not accompanied by systemic amyloidosis or clinical symptoms. This condition is the most common form of localized amyloidosis. In this study we aimed to investigate incidence and histologic characteristics of amyloidosis of seminal vesicles in radical prostatectomy materials of the patients whose prostate carcinomas were treated surgically.
- Publication
Turk patoloji dergisi, 2012, Vol 28, Issue 1, p44
- ISSN
1309-5730
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.5146/tjpath.2012.01096