Digital rectal examination is no longer necessary in the routine follow-up of men with undetectable prostate specific antigen after radical prostatectomy: The implications for follow-up

European Urology

Volumn 48, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 906-910

  Chaplin, Brian John ^a   Wildhagen, Mark F ^a   Schroder, Fritz H ^a   Kirkels, Wim J ^a   Bangma, Chris H ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Digital rectal examination; Follow up; Prostate cancer; Prostate specific antigen; Radical prostatectomy

Indexed keywords

PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIGEN DETECTION; ARTICLE; BONE METASTASIS; BONE SCINTISCANNING; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; DIGITAL RECTAL EXAMINATION; DISEASE COURSE; ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION; FOLLOW UP; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; INCONTINENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NURSE PRACTITIONER; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROSTATE ADENOCARCINOMA; PROSTATE BIOPSY; PROSTATECTOMY; RECORDING; RECURRENT CANCER; SKIN INDURATION; TRANSRECTAL ULTRASONOGRAPHY; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

ADULT; AGED; COHORT STUDIES; DIGITAL RECTAL EXAMINATION; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROBABILITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PROSTATE-SPECIFIC ANTIGEN; PROSTATECTOMY; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL; UNNECESSARY PROCEDURES;

EID: 27844526288     PISSN: 03022838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eururo.2005.07.006     Document Type: Article

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