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Latent Carcinoma of the Prostate

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Carcinoma of the prostate is defined as latent when it is detected at autopsy or in surgical specimens from patients in whom carcinoma was clinically not suspected. When symptoms and/or signs have aroused suspicion of prostatic malignancy, the term clinically manifest carcinoma of the prostate is used.

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  1. Department of Surgery and Ulleval Hospital, Department of Pathology, Diakonissehusets Hospital, Oslo, Norway

    Ivar Liavåg, Thorstein B. Harbitz & Olav A. Haugen

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  1. Institute of Pathology, University of Münster, D-44, Münster, Germany

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  2. International Agency for Research on Cancer, World Health Organization, Lyon, France

    H. Tulinius

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Liavåg, I., Harbitz, T.B., Haugen, O.A. (1972). Latent Carcinoma of the Prostate. In: Grundmann, E., Tulinius, H. (eds) Current Problems in the Epidemiology of Cancer and Lymphomas. Recent Results in Cancer Research / Fortschritte der Krebsforschung / Progrès dans les recherches sur le cancer. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-41032-5_13

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