peripheral zone of prostate

Definition

The region of the prostate that is located posterior to the central and transition zones, surrounding the distal urethra. It is the zone of origin for the vast majority of human prostatic cancers.

Source: UBERON · Licence: CC-BY-3.0

Definition from the Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall CJ et al., Genome Biology 2012, 13:R5), https://obophenotype.github.io/uberon/, licensed under CC BY 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/).

Sub-structures

• left peripheral zone of prostate
• right peripheral zone of prostate

Neighbouring structures

• anterior fibromuscular stroma of prostate
• apex of prostate
• base of prostate
• central zone of prostate
• prostate duct
• prostate duct
• prostatic utricle
• transition zone of prostate
• verumontanum

Identifiers

UBERON

8410026