Diagnostic efficacy of transrectal ultrasound-guided biopsy of the prostatic fossa in patients with rising PSA following radical prostatectomy

World Journal of Urology

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 309-313

  Deliveliotis, Charalambos ^a   Manousakas, Theodoros ^a   Chrisofos, Michael ^a   Skolarikos, Andreas ^a   Delis, Athanasios ^a   Dimopoulos, Constantinos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

Author keywords

Biopsy; Prostate cancer; PSA; Radical prostatectomy; Transrectal ultrasound

Indexed keywords

PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN;

AGED; ARTICLE; BIOPSY; BLOOD; DIGITAL RECTAL EXAMINATION; ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PROSTATE TUMOR; PROSTATECTOMY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TUMOR RECURRENCE;

AGED; BIOPSY; DIGITAL RECTAL EXAMINATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; PROSTATE-SPECIFIC ANTIGEN; PROSTATECTOMY; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 34347220121     PISSN: 07244983     EISSN: 14338726     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00345-007-0167-6     Document Type: Article

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