DOI: https://doi.org/10.22263/2312-4156.2020.6.54
Piatsko I.A.
Morphometric parameters of the main prostate glands from juvenile age to senility
Vitebsk State Order of Peoples’ Friendship Medical University, Vitebsk, Republic of Belarus
Vestnik VGMU. 2020;19(6):54-61.
Abstract.
Objectives. To determine age-related changes of quantitative morphometric parameters of the main glands in all prostatic structural lobules in the range from adolescence to senility.
Material and methods. Prostates of 77 corpses of males who died at the age of 13 – 86 years served as the material for this study. The epithelium height of the main prostatic glands, acini and acinar lumina areas, shape characteristics of acini and acinar lumina in the inferioposterior, superiomedial, anteromedial and inferiolateral lobules were studied. To evaluate the shape characteristics of acini and their lumina the following parameters were considered: roundness, roundness index, and compactness index.
Results. As a result of the сonducted study the morphometric parameters of the prostate glands closely correlating with age were defined, such as acini and acinar lumina areas, the epithelium height of the main prostatic glands. Indicators of shape characteristics of the main prostatic glands are slightly associated with age.
Conclusions. Based on the conducted study we can conclude that acini and acinar lumina areas, the epithelium height of the main prostatic glands can be used as markers of age-related changes of the human prostate in morphological researches. Indicators describing the shape of the main prostate glands have a weak connection with age and cannot serve as markers of age-related changes in the human prostate.
Key words: prostate, age, glands, epithelium.
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Piatsko I.A. – senior lecturer of the Chair of Human Anatomy, Vitebsk State Order of Peoples’ Friendship Medical University,
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3917-0798
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