Under adequate local anesthesia, the size of the transrectal ultrasound probe made no difference to pain perception during transrectal ultrasound guided prostate biopsy, according to a PubMed report.
Prostate cancer is increasingly recognised as a major public health care problem with 17 210 new cases registered in England and Wales in 1993, and 8570 deaths. 1 Screening for prostate cancer remains ...
Investigators conclude that transperineal biopsy should be the standard of care for prostate biopsy. Prostate biopsy using a transperineal approach has a cancer detection rate similar to that of a ...