Condom perforation during transrectal ultrasound guided (TRUS) prostate biopsies: A potential infection risk

International Urology and Nephrology

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1121-1124

  Masood, Junaid ^a,b   Voulgaris, Stelios ^a   Awogu, Olisa ^a   Younis, Choudhary ^a   Ball, Andrew J ^a   Carr, Tom W ^a  

^a SOUTHEND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COLIFORM BACTERIUM; CONDOM; CONTAMINATION; CROSS INFECTION; DISINFECTION; HEPATITIS; HOSPITAL HYGIENE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFECTION RISK; INFECTIOUS COMPLICATION; INSTRUMENT STERILIZATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERFORATION; PROSTATE BIOPSY; SEPSIS; TRANSRECTAL ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

BIOPSY; CONDOMS; CROSS INFECTION; ENDOSONOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; HUMANS; MALE; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RECTUM; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 36649021328     PISSN: 03011623     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11255-007-9213-y     Document Type: Article

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