Premium
A survey of 3,000 examinations by transrectal ultrasonotomography
Author(s) -
Watanabe Hiroki,
Date Seiki,
Ohe Hiroshi,
Saitoh Masahito,
Tanaka Shigeki
Publication year - 1980
Publication title -
the prostate
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.295
H-Index - 123
eISSN - 1097-0045
pISSN - 0270-4137
DOI - 10.1002/pros.2990010302
Subject(s) - medicine , biopsy , cancer , prostatic disease , prostate cancer , cancer detection , gynecology , urology , radiology
As a routine examination for intrapelvic organs, transrectal ultrasonotomography was performed 3,000 times on 2,331 patients from June 1976 to February 1980. In this series, 57 patients were diagnosed as prostatic cancer by transrectal ultrasonotomography and 54 (94.7%) of them were finally diagnosed as cancer by biopsy. Three hundred twenty‐six patients were diagnosed as suspected prostatic cancer, and cancer was confirmed also by biopsy in 12 (3.7%) of them. Among 1,741 patients with various prostatic diseases on whom cancer was ruled out by transrectal ultrasonotomography, there were 2 (0.1%) false‐negative cancer cases.