A simple method for estimating the optimum number of prostate biopsy cores needed to maintain high cancer detection rates while minimizing unnecessary biopsy sampling

Journal of Endourology

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 143-147

  Jiang, Jimmy ^a   Colli, Janet ^a   El Galley, Rizk ^a  

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER SURGERY; GLEASON SCORE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; ORGAN SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE BIOPSY; PROSTATE CANCER; PROSTATE SIZE; PROSTATECTOMY; TRANSRECTAL ULTRASONOGRAPHY; TUMOR BIOPSY;

BIOPSY; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PROSTATE; PROSTATECTOMY; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS;

EID: 75149180985     PISSN: 08927790     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/end.2009.0285     Document Type: Article

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