Prostatic Maldevelopment in the Prune Belly Syndrome: A Defect in Prostatic Stromal-epithelial Interaction
- 1 September 1978
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Journal of Urology
- Vol. 120 (3) , 341-344
- https://doi.org/10.1016/s0022-5347(17)57168-2
Abstract
The prune belly syndrome consists of a triad of abdominal wall musculature deficiency, cryptorchidism and urinary tract anomalies in humans. A rarely described but fairly constant component of the syndrome is the lack of development of the epithelial elements of the prostate. This is a further expression of a postulated arrest in mesenchymal development responsible for other features of the syndrome.This publication has 8 references indexed in Scilit:
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