Imaging the prostate.
There have been major advances in prostate imaging techniques in recent years. Most prostatic imaging is centred on the earlier diagnosis and more accurate staging of cancer but transrectal ultrasonography is also valuable in the assessment of prostatitis, haemospermia, male infertility and prostatic volume measurement before the treatment of outflow tract obstruction caused by benign prostatic hyperplasia.
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Department of Clinical Radiology, Royal Gwent Hospital, Newport.
D001706:Biopsy; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D003952:Diagnostic Imaging / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D011469:Prostatic Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000473:pathology; D012007:Rectum; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D014463:Ultrasonography