Local anesthetic transperineal (LATP) biopsy for prostate cancer detection is gaining in popularity due to concerns about infectious complications with transrectal ultrasound (TRUS) biopsy. LATP ...
A prostate biopsy is a procedure to remove small samples of tissue from the prostate gland. It's a method to test for prostate cancer if a prostate-specific antigen (PSA) blood test or digital rectal ...
Patient-adjusted nitrous oxide (N 2 O), commonly called laughing gas, did not reduce anxiety associated with transrectal prostate biopsy but significantly reduced pain as compared with standard ...
A multi-institutional clinical trial showed that a newer technique for collecting prostate biopsy samples reduced the risk of infection compared with traditional biopsy approaches. A ...
Rates of severe infection after transrectal ultrasound-guided (TRUS) prostate biopsy that require hospitalization are on the rise, a population-based Swedish study shows. "Over 100,000 biopsies are ...