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THE USE OF THE YEENEMA TROCAR IN PERINEAL PROSTATIC BIOPSY
Author(s) -
Maddern J.
Publication year - 1960
Publication title -
australian and new zealand journal of surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.111
H-Index - 51
eISSN - 1445-2197
pISSN - 0004-8682
DOI - 10.1111/j.1445-2197.1960.tb03849.x
Subject(s) - medicine , prostate carcinoma , prostate , prostate biopsy , biopsy , carcinoma , radiology , general surgery , surgery , urology , cancer , pathology
Summary As the digital diagnosis of carcinoma of the prostate is open to a significant error, oestrogen therapy or radical surgery should not be begun on this evidence alone. Some confirmatory evidence should be obtained. Trocar perineal biopsy is a useful method of confirming the diagnosis in: (a) Cases in within carcinoma is suspected clinically. (b) Hard nodules in the prostate. (c) Cases with extensive osteosclerotic lesions in which the prostate is not unduly hard. The Veenema trocar gives a simple and effective method of performing this with a good degree of accuracy and a minimum of complications.