Table 5. Histopathological analysis (most common lesion) of individual prostate lobes in control, finasteride, and dutasteride groups.

^{1, 2}.

			PIN				Adenocarcinoma				Prostate cancer
	n			LG	MG	HG		WD	MD	PD		(WD-PD)
Anterior prostate
Control		32		44%a	20%	20%a		0%	0%	16%a		16%a
Pre-Finasteride		30		56%a	22%	3%a,b		0%	0%	19%a		19%a
Post-Finasteride		29		50%a	29%	5%a,b		0%	0%	16%a		16%a
Pre-Dutasteride		32		76%b	16%	0%b		0%	0%	8%b		8%b
Post-Dutasteride		33		79%b	14%	0%b		0%	0%	8%b		8%b
Dorsal prostate
Control		32		5%a	59%a	28%a		0%	0%	8%a		8%a
Pre-Finasteride		29		55%b	19%b,c	0%b		0%	0%	26%b		26%b
Post-Finasteride		31		33%c	44%a,d	2%b		0%	0%	21%b		21%b
Pre-Dutasteride		31		73%b	6%c	0%b		0%	0%	21%b		21%b
Post-Dutasteride		33		57%b	31%b,d	0%b		0%	0%	12%a		12%a
Lateral prostate
Control		28		10%a	70%a	7%a		0%	0%	14%a		14%a
Pre-Finasteride		30		52%b	22%b	0%b		0%	0%	27%b		27%b
Post-Finasteride		30		47%b	25%b	2%b		0%	0%	27%b		27%b
Pre-Dutasteride		32		64%c	9%c	0%b		0%	0%	27%b		27%b
Post-Dutasteride		33		65%c	15%b,c	0%b		0%	0%	20%c		20%c
Ventral prostate
Control		30		14%a	68%a	2%		0%	0%	16%a		16%a
Pre-Finasteride		28		45%b	20%b	0%		0%	0%	35%b		35%b
Post-Finasteride		30		32%c	43%c	0%		0%	0%	25%c		25%c,d
Pre-Dutasteride		31		69%d	2%d	0%		2%	0%	28%c		30%b,d
Post-Dutasteride		30		64%d	17%b	0%		0%	0%	19%a		19%a,c

¹Values with different subscript letters are statistically different from one another (p<0.05).

²LG = low-grade, MG = moderate-grade, HG = high-grade, PIN = prostatic intraepithelial neoplasia, WD = well-differentiated,

MD = moderately differentiated, PD = poorly differentiated.