The TRUS guided prostate extended biopsy in the detection of prostate cancer
V Ambert, MS Budau, ID Chira, M Tudor Radu, T Vasile Constantin, A Abd-Halal · Ultraschall in der Medizin - European Journal of Ultrasound · 2008 · Heft 05
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Introduction: The prostate cancer represents an important health problem, because of its high incidence and the increase number of deaths. In 2006 was recorded a sudden but evident decrease of mortality (1). This decrease of deaths number was determined by the PSA screening and especially by using the TRUS guided prostate extended biopsy at patients with risk of PC. The new strategies consider that the sextant biopsy (PS), first used by Hodge and al (7) isn't very accurate, the detection rate of PC decreasing with the increase of prostate volume. It was demonstrated using mathematics models, that a bigger number…
