Importance of transition zone prostate biopsies in patients with gray-zone psa levels undergoing the ultrasound-guided systematic ten-biopsy regimen for the first time

Urologia Internationalis

Volumn 74, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 23-26

  Ishizuka, O ^a   Mimura, Y ^a   Oguchi, T ^a   Kawakami, M ^a   Nishizawa, O ^a  

^a SHINSHU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Biopsy, prostate; Prostate cancer; Prostate specific antigen; Transition zone, prostate

Indexed keywords

PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER STAGING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE BIOPSY; PROSTATE CANCER; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; SAMPLE SIZE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; BIOPSY; BLOOD; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PROSTATE; PROSTATE TUMOR; STATISTICS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOPSY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTATE; PROSTATE-SPECIFIC ANTIGEN; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS;

EID: 18344381625     PISSN: 00421138     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000082704     Document Type: Article

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