Comparison of ultrasound-guided biopsies and prostatectomy specimens: Predictive accuracy of Gleason score and tumor site

Urologia Internationalis

Volumn 66, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 66-71

  Gregori, Andrea ^a,b   Vieweg, Johannes ^a   Dahm, Philip ^a   Paulson, David F ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Azienda USL Parma PO Fidenza   (Italy)

Author keywords

Biopsy; Prostatic Neoplasms; Radical prostatectomy

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER INVASION; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ECHOGRAPHY; GLEASON SCORE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE BIOPSY; PROSTATE CANCER; PROSTATECTOMY; SCORING SYSTEM;

ADULT; AGED; BIOPSY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSTATE; PROSTATECTOMY; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 0035107418     PISSN: 00421138     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000056573     Document Type: Article

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