title: Diagnostic and prognostic relevance of morphometric structural analyses of the organs of the urogenital tract.
abstract: The significance of morphometric structural analyses in their clinical application to the organs of the urogenital tract is critically assessed. Morphometry is of prognostic relevance in examinations of carcinomas of the kidney, bladder and prostate, whereby the structural parameters and the DNA distribution patterns of the nuclei are crucial assessment criteria. For diagnostic purposes, morphometric structural analyses are mainly used in automated evaluations of cytological urine specimens. Especially in the diagnosis of highly differentiated tumors of the bladder, flow photocytometry and image analysis are certainly superior to the visual cytological urinalyses in use today.
authors.affiliation: Urological University Hospital, Ulm, FRG.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Nafe
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Frohneberg
mesh_terms: D004247:DNA / Q000648:ultrastructure; D005434:Flow Cytometry; D006801:Humans; D007091:Image Processing, Computer-Assisted; D008297:Male; D011379:Prognosis; D014556:Urine / Q000166:cytology; D014565:Urogenital Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis; D014566:Urogenital System / Q000033:anatomy & histology*
chemical_list: D004247:DNA