PCA3 score and prostate cancer diagnosis at repeated saturation biopsy. Which cut-off: 20 or 35?

International Braz J Urol

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 489-495

  Pepe, Pietro ^a   Fraggetta, Filippo ^a   Galia, Antonio ^a   Skonieczny, Giorgio ^b   Aragona, Francesco ^a  

^a CANNIZZARO HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Biopsy; Diagnosis; PCA3; Prostate cancer

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; PROSTATE CANCER ANTIGEN 3, HUMAN; PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN; TUMOR ANTIGEN;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; BIOPSY; BLOOD; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PROSTATE; PROSTATE TUMOR; PROSTATECTOMY; REFERENCE VALUE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ANTIGENS, NEOPLASM; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BIOPSY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTATE; PROSTATE-SPECIFIC ANTIGEN; PROSTATECTOMY; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; REFERENCE VALUES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84871450251     PISSN: 16775538     EISSN: 16776119     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S1677-55382012000400008     Document Type: Article

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