Prostate biopsy outcome using 29 mm cutting length

Urologia Internationalis

Volumn 75, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 209-212

  Fink, K G ^a   Hutarew, G ^a   Pytel, A ^a   Schmeller, N T ^a  

^a PARACELSUS MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Cutting length; Prostate biopsy; Prostate cancer

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOPSY DEVICE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEEDLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE BIOPSY; PROSTATE CARCINOMA; PROSTATE TUMOR; PROSTATECTOMY;

BIOPSY, NEEDLE; CARCINOMA; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ENDOSONOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; MALE; PROSTATE; PROSTATECTOMY; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RECTUM; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 26444533375     PISSN: 00421138     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000087795     Document Type: Article

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