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Significance of the Percentage of Prostate Needle Biopsy Cores with Cancer as a Predictor of Disease Extension in Radical Prostatectomy Specimens in Japanese Men

✍ Scribed by Iori Sakai; Ken-ichi Harada; Isao Hara; Hiroshi Eto; Hideaki Miyake

Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Year: 2005
Tongue: English
Weight: 147 KB
Volume: 37
Category: Article
ISSN: 0301-1623
DOI: 10.1007/s11255-004-6102-5

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