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Tissue from transurethral prostatectomy shows endometrial carcinoma
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endometrial carcinoma of the prostate
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       *[footnote 2] Last name of the author is misspelled.
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  • Medical school dropout James Joyce knew about the utricle. With some artistic license he wrote of "an ovoblastic gestation in the prostatic utricle or male womb." [101]
  • Endometriosis has occurred in men with prostatic carcinoma treated with high doses of estrogens. To explain this, two competing theories have been advanced: (1) hyperplasia and spread of endometrial tissue from the prostatic utricle, and (2) metaplastic transformation of peritoneal cells into endometrial cells. [102]
  • Women may have problems with the remnants of embryological male structures still in their body. This woman's ovarian cyst arose from the rete ovarii, the vestigial homologue of the rete testis that is present in the hilus of every ovary. [103]
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    (1) Campbell's Urology. 5th ed.
  Walsh PC, et al. Philadelphia: Saunders, 1986: 1473.
    (2) Uncommon Malignant Tumors.
  Antoniades J. New York: Masson, 1980: 180-181, 365-368.   Amazon.com
    (3) "Endometrial" adenocarcinoma of the prostate: a distinctive tumor of probable prostatic duct origin.
  Zaloudek C, Williams JW, et al.   Cancer 1976 May;37(5):2255-62.  Pubmed+Abstract  Similars
    (4) Medical Embryology. 3rd ed..
  Langman J. Baltimore: Williams & Wilkins, 1975: 180-185.   Amazon.com
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    101.Ulysses.
  Joyce J. New York: Random House/Vintage Books 1986: XIV.728, IX.836.   Amazon.com
    102.Endometriosis [see comments].
  Olive DL, Schwartz LB.   N Engl J Med 1993 Jun 17;328(24):1759-69.  Pubmed  Similars
    103.Case records of the Massachusetts General Hospital. Weekly clinicopathological exercises. Case 23-1986. An 80-year-old woman with anemia, elevation of the erythrocyte sedimentation rate, and a pelvic mass.
  N Engl J Med 1986 Jun 12;314(24):1564-72.  Pubmed  Similars
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