Morphological Study on Age Related Changes of Prostate

Abstract

Context: Prostate related clinical conditions such as prostatic benign hyperplasia and carcinoma prostate are major medical conditions within aging population. Detailed morphological knowledge is essential for proper diagnosis and management of prostatic disease. Study design: Descriptive type of study. Place and Period of study: Department of Anatomy, Dhaka Medical College, Dhaka from August 2006 to June 2007. Materials: Present study was performed on 70 post mortem human prostate. The samples were collected from unclaimed dead bodies that were under examination in the Morgue of Department of Forensic Medicine of Dhaka Medical College, Method: The samples were divided into three age group; Group A (10-20 years), Group B (21-40 years), Group C (41-70 years). All samples were studied morphologically. Result: Statistically significant positive correlation was found between age and weight, length, transverse diameter, antero-posterior diameter of prostate. Conclusion: There were changes in the morphology of prostate in relation to age. Keywords: Prostate; morphology. DOI: 10.3329/bja.v7i2.6085 Bangladesh J. Anat. 2009; 7(2) : 68-72

Morphological study of prostate in different age groups of Indian population

“…Rogers and Jacob (1992), Glass and Mundy (2010) both observed the value of transverse diameter to be of 4 cm each respectively. The data of Ahmed, Ara, Begum et al (2009) and Begum (1990) was lower than our study and Moore (1936) data was the highest.…”

“…The lowest mean value was less in our study and the highest mean value was higher in our study as compared to that of Moore (1936) data of American population. Data from Bangladeshi population reported by Begum (1990) and Ahmed, Ara, Begum et al (2009) had lowest and the highest mean value to be higher than our present study.…”

“…The data of Moore (1936) and Ahmed, Ara, Begum et al (2009) states that lowest and highest mean value was higher than our present study which depicts that the length in initial 2 decades was found to be 0.5-1 cm more in Bangladeshi and American population.…”

“…The morphological data available from Moore (1936) was for American population; Begum (1990), Ahmed, Ara, Begum et al (2009) and Khan (1995) for Bangladeshi population were utilized for comparison with the current study of the Indian population as the age group of the specimen was from 10-80 years of age.…”