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Specific spatial distribution patterns of tumor foci are associated with a low risk of biochemical recurrence in pT2pN0R0 prostate cancer. World J Urol 2020; 39:1499-1507. [PMID: 32591903 DOI: 10.1007/s00345-020-03323-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/22/2020] [Accepted: 06/20/2020] [Indexed: 10/24/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND The previous attempts for pT2 substaging of prostate cancer (PCa) were insufficient in providing prognostic subgroups and the search for new prognostic parameters to subcategorize pT2 PCa is, therefore, needed. Therefore, the current study investigated the association between tumor distribution patterns and the biochemical recurrence (BCR)-free survival rate in pT2pN0R0 PCa. METHODS Following radical prostatectomy, the anatomical distribution of PCa in 743 men with pT1-pT3pN0 disease was analyzed to determine 20 types of PCa distribution patterns. Then, 245 men with pT2pN0R0 PCa was considered for prognostic evaluation with a mean follow-up period of 60 months. The spatial distribution patterns of PCa were evaluated using a cMDX©-based map model of the prostate. An analysis including 552,049 comparison operations was performed to assist in the evaluation of the similarity levels of the distribution patterns. A k-mean cluster analysis was applied to determine groups with similar distribution patterns. A decision-tree analysis was performed to divide these groups according to frequency of BCR. The BCR-free survival rate was analyzed using Kaplan-Meier curves. Predictors of progression were investigated using a Cox proportional hazards model. RESULTS BCR occurred in 8.2% of the 245 men with pT2pN0R0 PCa. The median time of recurrence was 60 months (interquartile range [IQR]: 42-77). In univariate and multivariate analyses, the prostate volume and the distribution patterns were independent predictors for BCR, whereas the sub-staging of pT2 tumors, Gleason grading, prostate-specific antigen (PSA) level, and relative tumor volume were not. In the patients with pT2pN0R0 disease, PCa distribution patterns with the apical involvement were significantly associated with the risk of BCR (P = 0.001). CONCLUSION The spread tumor patterns with the apical involvement are associated with a high-risk of BCR in the pT2 tumor stage. The vertical tumor spread could be considered in developing improved prognostic pT2 sub-categories.
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Lu CH, Ou YC, Huang LH, Weng WC, Chang YK, Chen HL, Hsu CY, Tung MC. Early Dutasteride Monotherapy in Patients With Elevated Serum Prostate-Specific Antigen Levels Following Robot-Assisted Radical Prostatectomy. Front Oncol 2019; 9:691. [PMID: 31428576 PMCID: PMC6687841 DOI: 10.3389/fonc.2019.00691] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/29/2019] [Accepted: 07/12/2019] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
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Background: To evaluate the efficacy of early dutasteride administration in patients with a detectable prostate-specific antigen (PSA) levels after robot-assisted radical prostatectomy (RARP). Methods: We retrospectively analyzed RARP patients whose pathological stage is T2a to T3b without lymph node or distant metastasis from 2007 to 2017. All patients received a daily dose of 0.5 mg of dutasteride when post-RARP PSA levels were increasing but had not achieved biochemical recurrence. PSA levels were monitored every 3 months after dutasteride administration. None of the patients received radiotherapy (RT) or androgen-deprivation therapy (ADT) before taking dutasteride. All follow-ups were begun from RARP to January 2019 or to the date of RT/ADT. Results: Thirty-five patients were included in this analysis. The median followed up was 53.6 months. Twenty-two patients (62.9%) showed a PSA response in which the PSA decreased more than 10% at the first follow-up after dutasteride administration. The Pathological stage > T2 (p = 0.012) and positive surgical margin (p = 0.046) were prognostic factors for a PSA response. Twenty-three out of 35 included patients (65.7%) did not require further RT/ADT. The significant risk factor was the PSA level (p = 0.011) at the beginning of dutasteride treatment. The cut-off value of the PSA level to avoid further RT/ADT was 0.195 ng/ml. Conclusions: Early dutasteride administration showed a significant decline in the PSA levels of patients with pathology stage >T2 and positive surgical margin in our retrospective hypothesis-generating study. If dutasteride was provided before the PSA value increased to 0.195 ng/ml after RARP, it would reduce the probability of acquirement of RT/ADT.
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- Chin-Heng Lu
- Division of Urology, Department of Surgery, Tungs' Taichung Metroharbor Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan
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- Division of Urology, Department of Surgery, Tungs' Taichung Metroharbor Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan
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- Division of Urology, Department of Surgery, Tungs' Taichung Metroharbor Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan
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- Division of Urology, Department of Surgery, Tungs' Taichung Metroharbor Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan
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- Department of Medical Research, Tungs' Taichung Metroharbor Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan
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- Department of Medical Research, Tungs' Taichung Metroharbor Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan
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- Division of Urology, Department of Surgery, Tungs' Taichung Metroharbor Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan
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- Division of Urology, Department of Surgery, Tungs' Taichung Metroharbor Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan
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Eminaga O, Al-Hamad O, Boegemann M, Breil B, Semjonow A. Combination possibility and deep learning model as clinical decision-aided approach for prostate cancer. Health Informatics J 2019; 26:945-962. [PMID: 31238766 DOI: 10.1177/1460458219855884] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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This study aims to introduce as proof of concept a combination model for classification of prostate cancer using deep learning approaches. We utilized patients with prostate cancer who underwent surgical treatment representing the various conditions of disease progression. All possible combinations of significant variables from logistic regression and correlation analyses were determined from study data sets. The combination possibility and deep learning model was developed to predict these combinations that represented clinically meaningful patient's subgroups. The observed relative frequencies of different tumor stages and Gleason score Gls changes from biopsy to prostatectomy were available for each group. Deep learning models and seven machine learning approaches were compared for the classification performance of Gleason score changes and pT2 stage. Deep models achieved the highest F1 scores by pT2 tumors (0.849) and Gls change (0.574). Combination possibility and deep learning model is a useful decision-aided tool for prostate cancer and to group patients with prostate cancer into clinically meaningful groups.
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- Okyaz Eminaga
- Stanford University School of Medicine, USA; University Hospital of Cologne, Germany
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Zapała P, Dybowski B, Bres-Niewada E, Lorenc T, Powała A, Lewandowski Z, Gołębiowski M, Radziszewski P. Predicting side-specific prostate cancer extracapsular extension: a simple decision rule of PSA, biopsy, and MRI parameters. Int Urol Nephrol 2019; 51:1545-1552. [PMID: 31190297 PMCID: PMC6713688 DOI: 10.1007/s11255-019-02195-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/24/2019] [Accepted: 06/04/2019] [Indexed: 01/14/2023]
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Objective To develop an easy-to-use side-specific tool for the prediction of prostate cancer extracapsular extension (ECE) using clinical, biopsy, and MRI parameters. Materials and methods Retrospective analysis of patients who underwent radical prostatectomy preceded by staging multiparametric MRI of the prostate was performed. Multivariate logistic regression analysis was used to choose independent predictors of ECE. Continuous variables were transformed to categorical ones by choosing threshold values using spline knots or testing thresholds used in previously described models. Internal validation of the rule was carried out as well as validation of other algorithms on our group was performed. Results In the analyzed period of time, 88 out of 164 patients who underwent radical prostatectomy met inclusion criteria. ECE was evidenced at radical prostatectomy in 41 patients (46.6%) and in 53 lobes (30.1%). In the multivariate analysis PSA, total percentage of cancerous tissue in cores (%PCa) and maximum tumour diameter (MTD) of Likert 3–5 lesions on MRI were independent predictors of ECE. The following rule for predicting side-specific ECE was proposed: %PCa ≥ 15% OR MTD ≥ 15 mm OR PSA ≥ 20 ng/mL. Internal validation of the algorithm revealed safe lower confidence limits for sensitivity and NPV, proving that model offers accurate risk grouping that can be safely used in decision-making. Conclusion The rule developed in this study makes ECE prediction fast, intuitive, and side-specific. However, until validated externally it should be used with caution.
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- Piotr Zapała
- Department of Urology, Medical University of Warsaw, Lindleya 4, 02-005, Warsaw, Poland
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- Department of Urology, Medical University of Warsaw, Lindleya 4, 02-005, Warsaw, Poland. .,Department of Urology, Roefler Memorial Hospital, Pruszków, Poland.
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- Department of Urology, Medical University of Warsaw, Lindleya 4, 02-005, Warsaw, Poland.,Department of Urology, Roefler Memorial Hospital, Pruszków, Poland
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- 1st Department of Clinical Radiology, Medical University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland
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- Department of Pathology, Medical University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Medical University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland
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- 1st Department of Clinical Radiology, Medical University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland
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- Department of Urology, Medical University of Warsaw, Lindleya 4, 02-005, Warsaw, Poland
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Decreased expression of bone morphogenetic protein-2 is correlated with biochemical recurrence in prostate cancer: Immunohistochemical analysis. Sci Rep 2018; 8:10748. [PMID: 30013089 PMCID: PMC6048060 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-28566-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/15/2018] [Accepted: 06/20/2018] [Indexed: 01/12/2023] Open
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We evaluated the prognostic value of BMP-2 expression in prostate cancer tissue via immunohistochemistry in prostate cancer patients. From July 2007 to August 2010, radical prostatectomy specimens from 90 patients with clinically localized prostate cancer (mean age, 62.7 years, mean follow-up 90.4 months) were assessed for BMP-2 expression using immunohistochemistry. We used stepwise multivariate Cox regression models stratified by study to assess the independent effects of the predictive factors and estimated hazard ratios (HRs). There were significant differences in the baseline characteristics of Gleason score (GS) and biochemical recurrence (BCR) between the groups with decreased and normal BMP-2 expression. Univariate analysis revealed GS, T stage (≥T3), and decreased BMP-2 expression as significant predictive determinants of BCR. In addition, GS (7: HR 2.836, p = 0.022; ≥8: HR 3.506, p = 0.048) and decreased BMP-2 expression (HR 2.007, p = 0.047) were significantly correlated with BCR in multivariate analysis. Overall five-year BCR-free survival rates in the group with decreased BMP-2 expression were worse than those in the group with normal expression. Therefore, decreased BMP-2 expression in prostate cancer tissue was correlated with the prognostic factors for BCR-free survival in patients with prostate cancer.
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Ceylan C, Tonyali S, Keles I. Impact of positive surgical margin on biochemical recurrence following radical prostatectomy in locally advanced prostate cancer. Kaohsiung J Med Sci 2016; 32:514-517. [PMID: 27742035 DOI: 10.1016/j.kjms.2016.08.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/06/2016] [Revised: 07/26/2016] [Accepted: 08/12/2016] [Indexed: 10/21/2022] Open
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This study aimed to determine the effect of surgical margin positivity on biochemical recurrence (BCR) in patients with locally advanced prostate cancer (PCa) who underwent radical retropubic prostatectomy (RRP). The medical records of all patients with locally advanced PCa that underwent RRP were retrospectively reviewed. Patient demographics, digital rectal examination findings, prostate biopsy Gleason score, prostate volume, pre- and post-treatment prostate-specific antigen (PSA) levels, definitive pathology Gleason score, surgical margin status, seminal vesicle invasion, perineural invasion, absence or presence of BCR, and the time to BCR were analyzed. The study included 130 patients. The final pathologic examination showed that seven (5.4%) patients had T3a disease and 123 (94.6%) had T3b disease. In all, 93 (71.5%) patients had a positive surgical margin [SM(+)], whereas 37 (28.5%) patients had a negative surgical margin [SM(-)]. Among the seven patients with pT3a disease, four (57.1%) had SM(+), whereas 89 (72.4%) of the 123 patients with pT3b disease had SM(-). BCR occurred in 11.8% (11 of 93) of patients with SM(+) and in 45.9% (17 of 37) of those with SM(-) (p < 0.001). Multivariate logistic regression analysis showed that SM(+) was the only significant predictor of BCR following RRP (relative risk, 0.163; 95% confidence interval (0.062-0.433); p < 0.001). SM(+) in RRP specimens is not always indicative of BCR in patients with locally advanced PCa. RRP should be considered an effective treatment choice for selected patients with locally advanced PCa, despite the associated high SM(+) rate.
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- Cavit Ceylan
- Department of Urology, Clinic of Türkiye Yüksek Ihtisas Training and Research Hospital, Ankara, Turkey
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- Department of Urology, Clinic of Türkiye Yüksek Ihtisas Training and Research Hospital, Ankara, Turkey.
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- Department of Urology, Afyon Kocatepe University, Faculty of Medicine, Afyon, Turkey
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Fischer S, Lin D, Simon RM, Howard LE, Aronson WJ, Terris MK, Kane CJ, Amling CL, Cooperberg MR, Freedland SJ, Vidal AC. Do all men with pathological Gleason score 8-10 prostate cancer have poor outcomes? Results from the SEARCH database. BJU Int 2015; 118:250-7. [PMID: 26351095 DOI: 10.1111/bju.13319] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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OBJECTIVE To determine whether there are subsets of men with pathological high grade prostate cancer (Gleason score 8-10) with particularly high or low 2-year biochemical recurrence (BCR) risk after radical prostatectomy (RP) when stratified into groups based on combinations of pathological features, such as surgical margin status, extracapsular extension (ECE) and seminal vesicle invasion (SVI). MATERIALS AND METHODS We identified 459 men treated with RP with pathological Gleason score 8-10 prostate cancer in the SEARCH database. The men were stratified into five groups based on pathological characteristics: group 1, men with negative surgical margins (NSMs) and no ECE; group 2, men with positive surgical margin (PSMs) and no ECE; group 3, men with NSMs and ECE; group 4, men with PSMs and ECE; and group 5, men with SVI. Cox proportional hazards models and the log-rank test were used to compare BCR among the groups. RESULTS At 2 years after RP, pathological group was significantly correlated with BCR (log-rank, P < 0.001) with patients in group 5 (+SVI) having the highest BCR risk (66%) and those in group 1 (NSMs and no ECE) having the lowest risk (14%). When we compared groups 2, 3, and 4, with each other, there was no significant difference in BCR among the groups (~50% 2-year BCR risk; log-rank P = 0.28). Results were similar when adjusting for prostate-specific antigen, age, pathological Gleason sum and clinical stage, or after excluding men who received adjuvant therapy. CONCLUSIONS In patients with high grade (Gleason score 8-10) prostate cancer after RP, the presence of either PSMs, ECE or SVI was associated with an increased risk of early BCR, with a 2-year BCR risk of ≥50%. Conversely, men with organ-confined margin-negative disease had a very low risk of early BCR despite Gleason score 8-10 disease.
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- Sean Fischer
- Division of Urology, Department of Surgery, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, USA.,Urology Section, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA
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- Department of Urology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Division of Urology, Department of Surgery, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, USA.,Urology Section, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA
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- Urology Section, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA.,Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC, USA
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- Urology Section, Department of Surgery, Veterans Affairs Medical Center of Greater Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA.,Department of Urology, University of California at Los Angeles Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Urology Section, Division of Surgery, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Augusta, GA, USA.,Division of Urologic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, GA, USA
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- Division of Urology, Department of Surgery, University of California at San Diego Medical Center, San Diego, CA, USA
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- Department of Urology, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.,Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.,Urology Section, Department of Surgery, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Urology Section, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA.,Division of Urology, Department of Surgery, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Urology Section, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA.,Division of Urology, Department of Surgery, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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Hashimoto T, Yoshioka K, Horiguchi Y, Inoue R, Yoshio O, Nakashima J, Tachibana M. Clinical effect of a positive surgical margin without extraprostatic extension after robot-assisted radical prostatectomy. Urol Oncol 2015; 33:503.e1-6. [PMID: 26277617 DOI: 10.1016/j.urolonc.2015.07.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/24/2015] [Revised: 06/28/2015] [Accepted: 07/11/2015] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of positive surgical margin (PSM) without extraprostatic extension after robot-assisted radical prostatectomy (RARP). MATERIALS AND METHODS We retrospectively reviewed 837 patients who underwent RARP for clinically localized prostate cancer without neoadjuvant endocrine therapy. The pT2+category lesions were defined according to World Health Organization classification. The actuarial probabilities of biochemical recurrence-free survival (BCR-FS) were determined using Kaplan-Meier analysis. Univariate and multivariate Cox proportional hazards regression analyses were also used to identify independent predictors for BCR. RESULTS Of the 837 patients, 102 (12.2%) experienced BCR during the follow-up period. The BCR-FS rate was significantly higher in patients with pT2+category tumors than in those with pT3a category tumors, and significantly lower in patients with pT2+category tumors than that in those with pT2 category tumors without PSM. The BCR-FS rate of patients with pT2+category tumors was significantly higher than that with pT3a category tumors with PSM but not significantly different from that with pT3a category tumors without PSM. In a multivariate analysis, the pathological T category considering pT2+category was one of independent predictive factors for BCR. CONCLUSIONS This study support the hypothesis that the pT2+category disease is associated with a significantly increased risk of BCR in patients with organ-confined prostate cancer after RARP. As PSM can be avoided in some cases, urologists should continually seek to improve their operative skills and to reduce the rate of PSM, especially in patients with organ-confined prostate cancer.
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- Department of Anatomic Pathology, Tokyo Medical University, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Urology, Tokyo Medical University, Tokyo, Japan
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- Department of Urology, Tokyo Medical University, Tokyo, Japan
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