Prospective evaluation of prostate-specificantigen density and systematic biopsies for early detection of prosttic carcinoma

Urology

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 1994, Pages 44-51

  Bazinet, Michel ^a   Meshref, Alaa W ^a   Trudel, Claude ^a   Aronson, Samuel ^a   Péloquin, François ^a   Nachabe, Mahmoud ^a   Bégin, Louis R ^a   Elhilali, Mostafa M ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN;

ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CLINICAL TRIAL; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; ORGAN SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE BIOPSY; PROSTATE CARCINOMA; UROLOGIC EXAMINATION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOPSY; FALSE NEGATIVE REACTIONS; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; PALPATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PROSTATE; PROSTATE-SPECIFIC ANTIGEN; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0028069633     PISSN: 00904295     EISSN: 15279995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0090-4295(94)80260-2     Document Type: Article

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