Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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6159740 | The Journal of Urology | 2009 | 7 Pages |
Abstract
The type of probe significantly affects the overall prostate cancer detection rate, particularly in patients with prostate specific antigen greater than 4 ng/ml and/or nonsaturation (8 to 19 cores) prostate biopsy. This may be because the end fire probe allows better mechanical sampling of the lateral and apical regions of the peripheral zone, where cancer is most likely to reside. We set the stage for a randomized, controlled trial to confirm our observations.
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Authors
Christina B. Ching, Ayman S. Moussa, Jianbo Li, Brian R. Lane, Craig Zippe, J. Stephen Jones,