An assessment of the usefulness of serum prostate-specific antigen level and cancer volume in biopsy specimens to predict the extent of prostate cancer

British Journal of Urology

Volumn 79, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 602-607

  Gohji, K ^a   Nomi, M ^a   Kizaki, T ^a   Morisue, K ^a   Okamoto, M ^a   Takenaka, A ^a   Fujii, A ^a  

^a KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cancer volume; Prostate cancer; Prostate specific antigen; Stage; Systematic biopsy

Indexed keywords

PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD LEVEL; BONE METASTASIS; BONE SCINTISCANNING; CLINICAL TRIAL; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE SEVERITY; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PELVIS LYMPHADENECTOMY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE BIOPSY; PROSTATE CANCER; PROSTATECTOMY; SEMINAL VESICLE; SYMPTOM; TUMOR VOLUME;

EID: 0031403855     PISSN: 00071331     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1464-410x.1997.00095.x     Document Type: Article

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