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Is there a role for anterior zone sampling as part of saturation trans-rectal ultrasound guided prostate biopsy?

BACKGROUND: The prostatic anterior zone (AZ) is not targeted routinely by TRUS guided prostate biopsy (TRUS-Pbx). MRI is an accurate diagnostic tool for AZ tumors, but is often unavailable due to cost or system restrictions. We examined the diagnostic yield of office based AZ TRUS-Pbx. METHODS: 127...

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Autores principales: Cole, Eric, Margel, David, Greenspan, Michael, Shayegan, Bobby, Matsumoto, Edward, Fischer, Marc A, Patlas, Michael, Daya, Dean, Pinthus, Jehonathan H
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4018265/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24884966
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2490-14-34

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