Systematic Prostate Biopsies Are More And More Often Becoming Saturation Biopsies

European Urology

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 202-204

  Scattoni, Vincenzo ^a  

^a VITA SALUTE SAN RAFFAELE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN;

CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER SCREENING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIGITAL RECTAL EXAMINATION; EDITORIAL; FALSE NEGATIVE RESULT; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NEEDLE BIOPSY; ORGAN SIZE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE BIOPSY; PROSTATE CANCER; STANDARD; TRANSRECTAL ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

BIOPSY, NEEDLE; HUMANS; MALE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS;

EID: 33745807997     PISSN: 03022838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eururo.2006.01.040     Document Type: Editorial

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