Is the diagnostic yield of prostate needle biopsies affected by prostate volume?

Urologic Oncology: Seminars and Original Investigations

Volumn 31, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1003-1005

  Leibovici, Dan ^a   Shilo, Yaniv ^a   Raz, Orit ^a   Stav, Kobi ^a   Sandbank, Judith ^a   Segal, Michael ^a   Zisman, Amnon ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Biopsy; Diagnostic yield; Large prostates; Prostate volume

Indexed keywords

PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIGITAL RECTAL EXAMINATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEEDLE BIOPSY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; PROSTATE VOLUME; TRANSRECTAL ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

BIOPSY; DIAGNOSTIC YIELD; LARGE PROSTATES; PROSTATE VOLUME;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DIGITAL RECTAL EXAMINATION; ENDOSCOPIC ULTRASOUND-GUIDED FINE NEEDLE ASPIRATION; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ORGAN SIZE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PROSTATE; PROSTATE-SPECIFIC ANTIGEN; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK FACTORS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84884672633     PISSN: 10781439     EISSN: 18732496     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.urolonc.2011.08.008     Document Type: Article

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