Length of prostate biopsy cores: does it impact cancer detection?

The Canadian journal of urology, 2013 - europepmc.org
Materials and methods We retrospectively analyzed pathology reports of 197 patients (2196
biopsy cores) undergoing initial transrectal ultrasound guided biopsy. A multivariate analysis …

Length of prostate biopsy cores: does it impact cancer detection?

PO Fiset, A Aprikian, F Brimo - The Canadian journal …, 2013 - pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Introduction The detection of prostate carcinoma relies on adequate sampling. We aimed to
evaluate whether core length is a significant biopsy parameter in the detection of cancer …