title: Comparative study between prostatic carcinoma G1-G3 and Gleason grading systems.
abstract: The need of an accurate and prognostically valuable method for grading the prostatic carcinoma resulted in, in the last decades, a large number of systems, none of them succeeding in being unanimously accepted by the pathologists family. The authors selected and reassessed using Gleason system a group of 221 cases with prostatic adenocarcinoma previously diagnosed using a combined G1-G3 system. The results were converted from Gleason system to G1-G3 system and then compared with the initial diagnostics. The group was divided, following the type of surgical procedure used for drawing the tissue, into three groups: transvesical prostatectomies (TVP), transurethral resections (TUR) and needle biopsies (B). The concordance between the two systems was good, even the number of TUR and B specimens was significant (85% of the studied group) showing that any of them can be successfully used in current practice, depending only on pathologist's experience.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathology, University of Medicine and Pharmacy of Craiova. emp@umfcv.ro
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Zaharia
authors.forename: I E
authors.initials: IE
authors.lastname: Pleşea
authors.forename: S D
authors.initials: SD
authors.lastname: Enache
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Tomescu
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Panuş
authors.forename: O T
authors.initials: OT
authors.lastname: Pop
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Badea
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kozokić
mesh_terms: D000230:Adenocarcinoma / Q000145:classification / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology*; D001707:Biopsy, Needle; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011471:Prostatic Neoplasms / Q000145:classification / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology*; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D020728:Transurethral Resection of Prostate