title: Spectrographic determination of zinc in the tissues of adenoma and carcinoma of the prostate.
abstract: The authors describe a spectrographic method for the determination of zinc in solid matter. This method may be used to determine semiquantitatively the zinc-content of prostatic tissue. It has been found by this method that the ash from neoplastic prostatic tissue contained less zinc than that from adenomatous prostatic tissue.
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D013058:Mass Spectrometry; D011470:Prostatic Hyperplasia / Q000378:metabolism*; D011471:Prostatic Neoplasms / Q000032:analysis*; D015032:Zinc / Q000032:analysis*
chemical_list: D015032:Zinc