Role of “saturation biopsy” in the detection of prostate cancer among difficult diagnostic cases

Urology

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 93-97

  Fleshner, Neil ^a   Klotz, Laurence ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN;

ADULT; AGED; ANESTHESIA; ARTICLE; BLADDER CATHETERIZATION; BLOOD LEVEL; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER GRADING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MICTURITION; PATHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE BIOPSY; PROSTATE CARCINOMA; PROSTATITIS; SAMPLING; SYMPTOM; TRANSRECTAL ULTRASONOGRAPHY; URINE RETENTION;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; COHORT STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTATE; PROSTATE-SPECIFIC ANTIGEN; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; PROSTATITIS;

EID: 0036297496     PISSN: 00904295     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0090-4295(02)01625-4     Document Type: Article

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