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
USEFULNESS OF DIGITAL RECTAL EXAMINATION, SERUM PROSTATE-SPECIFIC ANTIGEN, TRANSRECTAL ULTRAS ONOGRAPHY AND SYSTEMATIC PROSTATE BIOPSY FOR THE DETECTION OF ORGAN-CONFINED PROSTATE CANCER
β Scribed by Kazuo Gohji; Masayuki Okamoto; Koichi Morisue; Akio Fujii
- Book ID
- 108976045
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1995
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 448 KB
- Volume
- 2
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0919-8172
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