Invazia perineurală în cancerul de prostată

Abstract

Perineural invasion is the major mechanism of prostate cancer spread outside the prostate. The study group consisted of 170 cases of prostate carcinomas. Regarding the predictive value, the perineural invasion was compared with the clinical tumor stage and with histologic grading according to the Gleason score. In this study, perineural invasion was significantly associated with these parameters. Perineural invasion may therefore suggest a poor prognosis for patients with prostate carcinoma.