Malacoplakia or prostate cancer? Similarities and differences

Urologia Internationalis

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 47-49

  Agostinho, Aparecido Donizeti ^a   Corrêa, Luiz Antonio ^a   Amaro, João Luiz ^a   Bacchi, Carlos Eduardo ^a   De Camargo, João Lauro Viana ^a  

^a SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Adenocarcinoma, prostate; Cancer, prostate; Malacoplakia; Prostate

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; COTRIMOXAZOLE;

AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; GRANULOMATOUS INFLAMMATION; HUMAN; MALACOPLAKIA; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE ADENOCARCINOMA; PROSTATE BIOPSY; SYMPTOM; TRANSRECTAL ULTRASONOGRAPHY; TRANSURETHRAL RESECTION;

AGED; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; MALACOPLAKIA; MALE; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0031737293     PISSN: 00421138     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000030284     Document Type: Article

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