RESUMO
The results of histological and cytologic examination of the material obtained from 289 transrectal punction biopsies of the prostate carried out in 278 patients were compared. Smears were prepared from bioptates and stained haematoxylineosin after the method of Papenheim, Papanicolaou modified by A. V. Rudenko and L. K. Koonitsa. They were also treated with acridin orange (1:10,000). The histological examination established cancer in 66, nodose hyperplasia--97, chronic prostatitis--38, tuberculosis--4, fibrosis of prostatic stroma--9 and unaltered tissue in 48 cases. Cancer was suspected in 8 cases, while prostatic tissue was not identified in preparations in 8 cases. The cytological study detected cancer in 73 and chronic prostatitis in 42 cases. Cancer was suspected in 8 cases. No tumor or epithelial elements were identified in 148 and 7 cases, respectively. The cytological diagnosis was valid in 81% and cancer was erroneously diagnosed in 18 cases. Malignancy was not detected in 11 cancer patients. The cytological analysis failed to identify any difference between nodose hyperplasia and unaltered tissue of the prostate. It proved to be able to verify clear- and dark-celled adenocarcinoma as well as small cell and polymorphocellular carcinoma. However, it also failed to identify cribriform carcinoma and anaplastic adenocarcinoma.