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[Development of the human prostate during the first stages of fetal life. Morphometric study]
M C Dauge1, V Delmas, C A Mandarim de Lacerda
1Service d'Anatomie Pathologique, C.H.U. Bichat, Paris.
Bulletin De L'Association Des Anatomistes
|December 1, 1986
Abstract:
The initial prostatic development was investigated here with morphometric methods. Five male human fetuses, ranging in crown-rump length from 50 to 92 mm (foetal age 9 to 12.5 weeks) were studied. The morphometric analysis underline the importance of the prostatic mesenchyme and the later growth of the epithelial buds. Some reconstructions showed a crescent-shaped disposition of the supra-deferentials buds, according to the actual hypothesis about a "preprostatic" zone.