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any of various organs that synthesize substances needed by the body and release it through ducts or directly into the bloodstream (同)secretory organ, secretor, secreter

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Absence of prostatic growth in large cohort of adult female patients with congenital adrenal hyperplasia.

Doherty PJ1, Friedman AA, Migeon CJ, Macura KJ, Salmasi AH, Lakshmanan Y.
The Journal of urology.J Urol.2012 Oct;188(4 Suppl):1588-95. doi: 10.1016/j.juro.2012.02.029. Epub 2012 Aug 19.
PURPOSE: In girls with congenital adrenal hyperplasia the degree to which excess androgen exposure leads to the development of prostatic tissue is largely uncharacterized, except in rare case reports of prostatic growth and adenocarcinoma. Such growth yields concern for future malignant degeneration
PMID 22910261

Prostatic-type tissue in the lower female genital tract: a morphologic spectrum, including vaginal tubulosquamous polyp, adenomyomatous hyperplasia of paraurethral Skene glands (female prostate), and ectopic lesion in the vulva.

Kazakov DV1, Stewart CJ, Kacerovska D, Leake R, Kreuzberg B, Chudacek Z, Hora M, Michal M.
The American journal of surgical pathology.Am J Surg Pathol.2010 Jul;34(7):950-5. doi: 10.1097/PAS.0b013e3181e0f371.
The investigators report a series of prostatic-type lesions occurring in the lower female genital tract. The cases included a 4.5-cm mass representing hyperplasia of the glandular and stromal tissue of paraurethral Skene gland, a small ectopic prostatic lesion in the vulva, and 4 tubulosquamous vagi
PMID 20505502

Differential diagnosis of chronic pelvic pain in women: the urologist's approach.

Fletcher SG1, Zimmern PE.
Nature reviews. Urology.Nat Rev Urol.2009 Oct;6(10):557-62. doi: 10.1038/nrurol.2009.178. Epub 2009 Sep 1.
Chronic pelvic pain in women can be caused by a host of gynecological, gastrointestinal, musculoskeletal, neurologic, as well as urologic disorders. An initial broad differential diagnosis is essential. At times, overlapping symptoms and vague physical findings necessitate a multidisciplinary diagno
PMID 19724247

Metastasizing Adenocarcinoma of the Female Prostate (Skene's Paraurethral Glands) : Histological and Immunohistochemical Prostate Markers Studies and First Ultrastructural Observation