Prostate cancer staging: Correlation between ultrasound determined tumor contact length and pathologically confirmed extraprostatic extension

Journal of Urology

Volumn 159, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 1251-1259

  Ukimura, Osamu ^a   Troncoso, Patricia ^a   Ramirez, Edilberto I ^a   Babaian, R Joseph ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Prostatic neoplasms; Ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN;

ARTICLE; CANCER INVASION; CANCER STAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREDICTION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE BIOPSY; PROSTATE CANCER; PROSTATECTOMY; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TRANSRECTAL ULTRASONOGRAPHY; TUMOR VOLUME;

EID: 0031898371     PISSN: 00225347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-5347(01)63575-4     Document Type: Article

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