Prostate biopsy: Is age important for determining the pathological features in prostate cancer?

International Braz J Urol

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 331-337

  Antunes, Alberto A ^a,b,c   Leite, Katia R ^a,b   Dall'Oglio, Marcos F ^a,b   Crippa, Alexandre ^a,b   Nesrallah, Luciano J ^a,b   Srougi, Miguel ^a,b  

^a Syrian Lebanese Hospital   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^c NONE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Age groups; Biopsy; Needle; Neoplasm staging; Pathology; Prostatic neoplasms

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER GRADING; CANCER INVASION; GLEASON SCORE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERINEUM; PROSTATE ADENOCARCINOMA; PROSTATE BIOPSY; PROSTATE CANCER; TUMOR VOLUME;

EID: 24744467211     PISSN: 16775538     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S1677-55382005000400006     Document Type: Article

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