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Saturation biopsy for detecting and characterizing prostate cancer
Author(s) -
Jones J. Stephen
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
bju international
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.773
H-Index - 148
eISSN - 1464-410X
pISSN - 1464-4096
DOI - 10.1111/j.1464-410x.2007.06868.x
Subject(s) - prostate cancer , saturation (graph theory) , biopsy , medicine , cancer , pathology , mathematics , combinatorics
testing in 136 patients. Such concerns were dismissed when broad experience showed few complications, and their six-core technique quickly became the standard of care. Patients usually accepted the pain of the few needle punctures, based on the inability to anaesthetise the prostate during that era. The advent of periprostatic block [7,8] allowed even more aggressive 8–12-core strategies previously considered unthinkable [9].