PROSTATE BIOPSY OUTCOME – COMPARISON OF SINGLE- AND BI-PLANE TRANSRECTAL SONOGRAPHY

Purpose: Transrectal biopsy of the prostate under the guidance of ultrasonography is the mainstay of the diagnostic evaluation of prostate cancer (PC). Aim of our study is the comparison of biopsy done by the conventional ultrasound probe with one imaging plane (1st group) and by the probe with biplane imaging (2nd group). Methods and Materials: In the retrospective study we evaluated patients after the primary sonographically guided transrectal prostate biopsy. Evaluation was performed on the imaging system HAWK 2102 (BK-Medical, Denmark) with the conventional single-plane probe (BK 8551) or the bi-plane probe…