Individual prostate biopsy core embedding facilitates maximal tissue representation

Journal of Urology

Volumn 168, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 496-499

  Kao, Jerry ^a   Upton, Melissa ^a   Zhang, Ping ^a   Rosen, Seymour ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Biopsy; Biopsy, needle; Computer simulation; Prostate; Prostatic neoplasms

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE BIOPSY; PROSTATE CANCER;

EID: 0036071955     PISSN: 00225347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-5347(05)64666-6     Document Type: Article

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