Further cytologic and histologic studies of bladder lesions in workers exposed to para-aminodiphenyl: progress report.
Further cytologic and histologic studies of bladder lesions in workers exposed to para-aminodiphenyl: progress report.
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接触对氨基二苯的工人膀胱病变的进一步细胞学和组织学研究:进展报告。
DOI:
10.1093/jnci/43.1.233
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发表时间:
1969
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R. Kelly
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作者:
L. Koss;M. Melamed;R. Kelly
This is the third interval report on a long-term study of 503 men accidentally exposed to a potent bladder carcinogen, para-amino-diphenyl (xenylamine). To date, 35 men developed histologically proved carcinoma of the bladder. Cytologic studies of urinary sediment suggested that, after exposure, three distinct periods may be observed in the course of the disease: 1) a period of cytologic and clinical negativity, lasting several years; 2) a period of cytologic abnormalities in the absence of clinical disease; 3) a period of cytologic and clinical carcinoma. Histologic studies of bladder biopsies obtained during the second period disclosed that nonpapillary carcinomain situis usually the source of abnormal cells. Follow-up studies on a group of 13 men with nonpapillary carcinomain situ ab initioare reported. To date, invasive carcinoma of the bladder developed in 7 of these men. In 4, the urinary sediment still shows cytologic abnormalities suggestive of cancer, but there is no clinical evidence of cancer as yet. In 2 men, the smears became normal after biopsies of the lesion. This follow-up continues. In some exposées, suspicious cytologic abnormalities disappeared spontaneously, reverting to normal cytologic pattern, often after several years of follow-up. Thus, some of the lesser epithelial lesions may apparently spontaneously revert to normal. There is no obvious difference between the clinical course of carcinomas of the bladder, whether they have followed exposure top-aminodiphenyl or have occurred spontaneously. However, nonpapillary carcinomain situof the bladder is apparently a much more aggressive lesion than carcinomain situof the uterine cervix.