Computer modeling of prostate biopsy: Tumor size location - Not clinical significance - Determine cancer detection

Journal of Urology

Volumn 159, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 1260-1264

  Crawford, E David ^b   Hirano, Daisaku ^a   Werahera, Priya N ^b   Lucia, M Scott ^b   DeAntoni, Edward P ^b   Daneshgari, Firouz ^b   Brawn, Peter N ^b   Speights, V O ^b   Stewart, J Scott ^b   Miller, Gary J ^b  

^a NIHON UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Biopsy; Computer simulation; Prostatic neoplasms

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BIOPSY TECHNIQUE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER SIZE; COMPUTER MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE BIOPSY; PROSTATE CANCER;

EID: 0031946437     PISSN: 00225347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-5347(01)63576-6     Document Type: Article

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