Improving prostate cancer detection with an extended-core transrectal ultrasonography-guided prostate biopsy protocol

BJU International

Volumn 89, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 33-39

  Durkan, G C ^a   Sheikh, N ^a   Johnson, P ^a   Hildreth, A J ^a   Greene, D R ^a  

^a SUNDERLAND ROYAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biopsy; Diagnosis; Morbidity; Prostate; Ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; ORGAN SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE ADENOCARCINOMA; PROSTATE BIOPSY; TRANSRECTAL ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PROSTATE; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 0036164768     PISSN: 14644096     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1464-4096.2001.01488.x     Document Type: Article

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