Prostate Biopsy: Indications, Techniques, and Complications

✍ Scribed by Wael Sakr MD (auth.), J. Stephen Jones MD (eds.)

• Publisher: Humana Press
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 329
• Series: Current Clinical Urology
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Advances in prostate biopsy have made major complications uncommon and prostate biopsy is now one of the most common procedures performed by urologists. In Prostate Biopsy: Indications, Techniques, and Complications, all topics related to the diagnosis of prostate cancer, including risk factor assessment, indications for biopsy, techniques, complications, and emerging technologies in the science are presented. Topics of great importance in the field of prostate biopsy such as PSA, pain prevention, prediction models, and biopsy techniques are addressed Internationally acclaimed specialists provide their expert opinions on all topics related to prostate cancer diagnosis. Browsing the list of authors involves recognition of those who have defined the science of prostate cancer diagnosis and those who continue to improve it on an ongoing basis. Prostate Biopsy: Indications, Techniques, and Complications provides today’s most comprehensive and state of the art material written about prostate biopsy.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Defining the Problem: From Subclinical Disease to Clinically Insignificant Prostate Cancer....Pages 1-11
What Every Patient Should Know about Prostate Cancer Before He Submits to Biopsy of His Prostate....Pages 13-14
Prostate-Specific Antigen and Prostate Cancer Screening....Pages 15-27
The Role of Complexed Prostate-Specific Antigen in Prostate Cancer Screening....Pages 29-41
Newly Recognized Forms of Prostate-Specific Antigen and Emerging Molecular Markers....Pages 43-59
The Role of Prostate-Specific Antigen Velocity in the Diagnosis and Management of Prostate Cancer....Pages 61-70
Prostate Cancer Screening: Navigating the Controversy....Pages 71-82
Prostate Cancer Nomograms and How They Measure Up to Neural Networks....Pages 83-96
Preparation for Prostate Biopsy....Pages 97-104
Principles of Prostate Ultrasound....Pages 105-119
Minimizing Pain and Optimizing Patient Experience During Prostate Biopsy....Pages 121-142
Prostate Biopsy Techniques....Pages 143-163
Biopsy Strategies—How Many and Where?....Pages 165-178
Transperineal Prostate Biopsy....Pages 179-197
Repeat Prostate Biopsies and the Vienna Nomograms....Pages 199-216
Saturation Biopsy for Detection and Characterization of Prostate Cancer....Pages 217-229
Pathologic Implications of Prostate Biopsy....Pages 231-254
Complications of Transrectal Ultrasound—Guided Prostate Biopsy....Pages 255-268
Management and Controversies of High-Grade Prostatic Intraepithelial Neoplasia and Atypical Small Acinar Proliferation on Prostate Biopsy....Pages 269-286
Future Directions in Prostate Cancer Diagnosis....Pages 287-312
Back Matter....Pages 313-325

✦ Subjects

Urology/Andrology; Internal Medicine