Role of systematic ultrasound-guided staging biopsies in predicting extraprostatic extension and seminal vesicle invasion in men with prostate cancer

Journal of Clinical Ultrasound

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 123-131

  Babaian, R Joseph ^a   Evans, Robert B ^a   Okihara, Koji ^a   Kamoi, Kazumi ^b   Troncoso, Patricia ^a   Lane, Roger B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b KYOTO PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Biopsy; Extraprostatic extension; Prostate cancer; Seminal vesicle invasion; Staging; Transrectal ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER INVASION; CANCER STAGING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ECHOGRAPHY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METASTASIS; PREDICTION; PROSTATE BIOPSY; PROSTATE CANCER; PROSTATECTOMY; RELIABILITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SAFETY; SCORING SYSTEM; SEMINAL VESICLE DISEASE; TRANSRECTAL ULTRASONOGRAPHY; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT PLANNING;

AGED; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM STAGING; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROBABILITY; PROGNOSIS; PROSTATECTOMY; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEMINAL VESICLES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 0036184880     PISSN: 00912751     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jcu.10052     Document Type: Article

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