Objectives. To compare prostate cancer detection rates of extended 2D versus 3D biopsies
and to further assess the clinical impact of this method in day‐to‐day practice. Methods. We …

Objective: To evaluate the improvement in the rate of detection of prostate cancer using an
extensive protocol involving ten transrectal biopsies. Methods: A total of 162 patients …

Objective. The aim of this study was to compare the detection rate of clinically significant
disease in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)-targeted biopsies versus three-dimensional …

Objectives To explore the best individualized systematic prostate biopsy method. Methods
We retrospectively analyzed the clinical data of 1211 patients who underwent 12‐core …

Purpose: An increasing number of studies suggest that 6-sector transrectal ultrasound
guided biopsy of the prostate provides insufficient material to detect all clinically important …

Introduction: We retrospectively compared 6-and 12-core prostate biopsies in Taiwanese
men and evaluated the impact of prostate volume (PV), prostate-specific antigen (PSA), and …

OBJECTIVE: To prospectively evaluate the diagnostic yield of a 21-sample ultrasound-
guided needle biopsy protocol as the initial diagnostic strategy for detection of prostate …

Study Type–Diagnostic (RCT) Level of Evidence 1b What's known on the subject? and What
does the study add? Several studies have shown that increasing the number of prostate …

Purpose: We conducted a trial in patients with prostate specific antigen (PSA) levels from 2
to 10 ng/ml to validate a newly developed nomogram that defines the optimal number of …

OBJECTIVE To determine if a volume‐adjusted increase in the number of biopsy cores
could detect more prostate cancers than the standard sextant biopsy alone, without …