Prostatic organogenesis and its morphometric characteristics

: The prostatic organogenesis had been often studied, since 90 years, with the aim of finding an embryologic cause for the adult pathology. But the prostatic anatomy and morphogenesis had been recently reviewed. The author, with personnal results and an analysis of the literature, shows here the prostatic development. It is in agreement, morphometrically, with the general development of the fetus, and the importance of hormonal factors, androgenic as oestrogenic ones, is specified.