Is transition zone sampling at repeated saturation prostate biopsy still useful?

Urologia Internationalis

Volumn 85, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 324-327

  Pepe, Pietro ^a   Candiano, Giuseppe ^a   Fraggetta, Filippo ^a   Galia, Antonio ^a   Grasso, Giuseppe ^a   Aragona, Francesco ^a  

^a CANNIZZARO HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

Prostate cancer; Repeated prostate biopsy; Saturation prostate biopsy; Transition zone prostate cancer; Transurethral prostate resection

Indexed keywords

PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIGITAL RECTAL EXAMINATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; NEEDLE BIOPSY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE BIOPSY; PROSTATE CANCER; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SAMPLING; TRANSURETHRAL RESECTION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOPSY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICAL ONCOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTATE; PROSTATE-SPECIFIC ANTIGEN; RISK; TRANSURETHRAL RESECTION OF PROSTATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UROLOGY;

EID: 78049459042     PISSN: 00421138     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000320108     Document Type: Article

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