Predicting the extent of prostate cancer using a combination of serum prostate-specific antigen-alpha1-antichymotrypsin complex and systematic biopsy

Urologia Internationalis

Volumn 68, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 232-236

  Miyake, Hideaki ^a   Hara, Shoji ^a   Yamanaka, Nozomu ^b   Ono, Yoshiharu ^c   Eto, Hiroshi ^c   Yamada, Yuji ^d   Takechi, Yoshizumi ^d   Arakawa, Soichi ^a   Kamidono, Sadao ^a   Hara, Isao ^a  

^a KOBE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Shinko Hospital   (Japan)

^c HYOGO MEDICAL CENTER FOR ADULTS   (Japan)

^d Department of Urology   (Japan)

Author keywords

Prostate cancer; PSA ACT; Staging; Systematic biopsy

Indexed keywords

ALPHA 1 ANTICHYMOTRYPSIN; PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE BIOPSY; PROSTATE CARCINOMA; PROSTATECTOMY; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; BIOPSY; BLOOD; MACROMOLECULE; PATHOLOGY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; PROSTATE TUMOR; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

AGED; ALPHA 1-ANTICHYMOTRYPSIN; BIOPSY; HUMAN; MACROMOLECULAR SYSTEMS; MALE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSTATE-SPECIFIC ANTIGEN; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; HUMANS; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES;

EID: 0036016963     PISSN: 00421138     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000058441     Document Type: Article

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