A positive Real-Time Elastography (RTE) combined with a Prostate Cancer Gene 3 (PCA3) score above 35 convey a high probability of intermediate- or high-risk prostate cancer in patient admitted for primary prostate biopsy

BACKGROUND: The standard of care in patients with suspected prostate cancer (PCa) is systematic prostate biopsies. This approach leads to unnecessary biopsies in patients without PCa and also to the detection of clinical insignificant PCa. Better tools are wanted. We have evaluated the performance o...

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Autores principales: Nygård, Yngve, Haukaas, Svein A., Halvorsen, Ole J., Gravdal, Karsten, Frugård, Jannicke, Akslen, Lars A., Beisland, Christian
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4938932/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27391229
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12894-016-0159-1

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4938932/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27391229
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12894-016-0159-1

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