Detection of clinical unilateral T3a prostate cancer – by digital rectal examination or transrectal ultrasonography?
✍ Scribed by Chao-Yu Hsu; Steven Joniau; Raymond Oyen; Tania Roskams; Hein Van Poppel
- Book ID
- 109052811
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2006
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 77 KB
- Volume
- 98
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1464-4096
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In a aptient population, coordinated use of digital rectal examination and prostate-specific antigen can alert the physician as to the possible existence of prostate cancer. If both are used as first-line studies, abnormality of either can then direct the need for further study by transrectal ultras
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