[Could the transrectal prostate biopsy predict the rate of positive lymph nodes in prostate cancer patients?].
Since 1989, when Hodge and al. demonstrated transrectal ultrasound guided prostate biopsy, it has become a "gold standard" for the diagnosis of prostate cancer. According to the experience gained in the period 1999-2003 in the Department of Urology-Medical University, Sofia, in a prospective follow-up of 20 prostate cancer patients, we found relationship between the positive tru-cut biopsy cores and the rate of positive lymph nodes.
Ormanov
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D
Kirilov
S
S
Simeonov
P
P
Bonev
K
K
Ianev
K
K
Dimitrov
P
P
Vasilev
V
V
Georgiev
M
M
Panchev
P
P
D000368:Aged; D001707:Biopsy, Needle; D006801:Humans; D008198:Lymph Nodes / Q000473:pathology*; D008207:Lymphatic Metastasis; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011237:Predictive Value of Tests; D011471:Prostatic Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology*; D014463:Ultrasonography; D036761:Ultrasound, High-Intensity Focused, Transrectal