Prospective evaluation of systematic sextant transition zone biopsies in large prostates for cancer detection

Urology

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 89-93

  Chang, James J ^b   Shinohara, Katsuto ^b   Hovey, Regina M ^b   Montgomery, Carolyn ^b   Presti Jr , Joseph C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BIOPSY TECHNIQUE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER GRADING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FINGER; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE BIOPSY; PROSTATE CANCER; RECTUM; TRANSRECTAL ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

AGED; BIOPSY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0032125860     PISSN: 00904295     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0090-4295(98)00116-2     Document Type: Article

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