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Biopsy
Data on biopsy detailed by researchers at Duzce University
July 29th, 2008
According to recent research from Konuralp, Turkey, "Transrectal ultrasonography guided prostate biopsy is the principle procedure in the histological diagnosis of prostate cancer. Recently a trend toward increasing the number of cores has been popularized." "This practice further increases the need for a proper anesthetic application. However, there is no consensus on a standard local anesthetic strategy, while groups at most institutions currently prefer periprostatic anesthesia. We prospectively evaluated the contribution of intraprostatic anesthesia for transrectal prostate biopsies even when the sampling number was doubled to 12 cores. A total of 200 patients who...
Source: Cancer Weekly (2008-07-29)
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