Prostate from a child (12.5X)

Prostate from a child. Image copyright: University of Oslo, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. (Tissue stain: H+E).

This is an overview of the prostate from a young boy. The curved lumen in the middle of the section is the prostatic urethra (the mucosa is folded). Posterior to the urethra, there are two round holes: the right and left ductus ejaculatorius. The colliculus seminalis bulges into the urethra posteriorly. A bit of the muscle layers and mucosa of the rectum is seen in the lower part of the picture.

Published June 10th 2019, updated September 1st 2020.