Prostate Biopsy Findings. PROSTATE biopsy under local anesthesia showed similar safety and detection outcomes, with better comfort trends for transperineal sampling. A retrospecti ...
Prostate cancer is increasingly recognised as a major public health care problem with 17 210 new cases registered in England and Wales in 1993, and 8570 deaths. 1 Screening for prostate cancer remains ...
When it comes to prostate biopsy, is the transperineal or transrectal route better? Urologists are currently awaiting results from ongoing clinical trials exploring whether transperineal prostate ...
The report suggests that high-resolution micro-ultrasound could help identify clinically significant lesions that would be missed with conventional MRI. High-resolution micro-ultrasound (micro-US) ...
Under adequate local anesthesia, the size of the transrectal ultrasound probe made no difference to pain perception during transrectal ultrasound guided prostate biopsy, according to a PubMed report.
Extended analysis of a validated urine-exosome signature to predict high grade prostate cancer on initial biopsy: Performance across multiple sub-groups. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2016 ...
Local anesthetic transperineal (LATP) biopsy for prostate cancer detection is gaining in popularity due to concerns about infectious complications with transrectal ultrasound (TRUS) biopsy. LATP ...
Earlier this week, researchers presented data from the OPTIMUM (Optimization of Prostate Biopsy – Micro-Ultrasound Versus MRI) trial at the European Association of Urology Congress in Madrid, Spain.
Prostate biopsy in patients with suspected prostate cancer is usually carried out by a transrectal needle biopsy. Amongst other uses, transperineal template biopsy may be used for patients with ...