Increasing Hospital Admission Rates for Urological Complications After Transrectal Ultrasound Guided Prostate Biopsy

K. Nam, Robert; Saskin, Refik; Lee, Yuna; Liu, Ying; Law, Calvin; Klotz, Laurence; Andrew Loblaw, D.; Trachtenberg, John; Stanimirovic, Aleksandra; E. Simor, Andrew; Seth, Arun; R. Urbach, David; A. Narod, Steven

doi:10.1016/j.juro.2012.11.015

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Increasing Hospital Admission Rates for Urological Complications After Transrectal Ultrasound Guided Prostate Biopsy

Published in The Journal of Urology • Dec 9, 2012

Authors:

Robert K. Nam

Refik Saskin

Yuna Lee

Abstract

PURPOSE: Transrectal ultrasound guided prostate biopsy is widely used to confirm the diagnosis of prostate cancer. The technique has been associated with significant morbidity in a small proportion of patients. MATERIALS AND METHODS: We conducted a population based study of 75,190 men who underwent ...

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Medicine

Prostate cancer

Prostate

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