Original Articles: Prostate Cancer: Indications for Ultrasound Guided Transition Zone Biopsies in the Detection of Prostate Cancer

摘要: ABSTRACTTransrectal prostate ultrasound and systematic sextant biopsies have improved peripheral zone cancer diagnosis but they may miss many cancers arising in the transition zone. Biopsies directed into been used to detect residual patients diagnosed by transurethral resection suggested as potentially useful additions biopsies. To define indications for 187 men underwent evaluation including These were classified 4 categories based on clinical presentation. Category 1 included 26 with palpable nodularity an elevated specific antigen (PSA), of whom 16 (61.5%) had positive none was only 2 consisted 49 sonographic abnormalities zone, 15 (30.6%) biopsies, (13.3%) t...