PAIN AND MORBIDITY OF TRANSRECTAL ULTRASOUND GUIDED PROSTATE BIOPSY: A PROSPECTIVE RANDOMIZED TRIAL OF 6 VERSUS 12 CORES
- 1 January 2000
- journal article
- clinical trial
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Journal of Urology
- Vol. 163 (1) , 168-171
- https://doi.org/10.1016/s0022-5347(05)67996-7
Abstract
Purpose: An increasing number of studies suggest that 6-sector transrectal ultrasound guided biopsy of the prostate provides insufficient material to detect all clinically important prostate cancer...Keywords
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