Accuracy of a new echographic method (RULES, radiofrequency ultrasonic local estimators) in prostate cancer diagnosis

Anticancer Research

Volumn 28, Issue 3 B, 2008, Pages 1883-1886

  Bertaccini, Alessandro ^a,c   Franceschelli, Alessandro ^a   Schiavina, Riccardo ^a   Marchiori, Debora ^a   Baccos, Alessandro ^a   Pernetti, Remigio ^a   Granchi, Simona ^b   Biagi, Elena ^b   Masotti, Leonardo ^b   Martorana, Giuseppe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Prostate carcinoma; Prostatic biopsy; RULES; Transrectal ultrasound; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN;

AGED; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; B SCAN; CANCER PATIENT; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE BIOPSY; PROSTATE CANCER; RADIOFREQUENCY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

AGED; ALGORITHMS; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; HUMANS; MALE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 45949095397     PISSN: 02507005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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