Prospective blinded comparison of real-time sonoelastography targeted versus randomised biopsy of the prostate in the primary and re-biopsy setting

World Journal of Urology

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 219-223

  Ganzer, Roman ^a   Brandtner, Andreas ^a   Wieland, Wolf F ^a   Fritsche, Hans Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Detection rate; Primary biopsy; Prostate cancer; Re biopsy; Real time sonoelastography (RTE)

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; ELASTOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NEEDLE BIOPSY; OBSERVER VARIATION; PATHOLOGY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROSTATE; PROSTATE TUMOR; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE;

AGED; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PROSTATE; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 84859438361     PISSN: 07244983     EISSN: 14338726     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00345-011-0679-y     Document Type: Article

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