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Background The standard of care in patients with suspected prostate cancer (PCa) is systematic prostate biopsies. This approach leads to unnecessary biopsies in patients without PCa and also to the detection of clinical insignificant PCa. Better tools are wanted. We have evaluated the performance of real-time elastography (RTE) combined with prostate cancer gene 3 (PCA3) in an initial biopsy setting...
ObjectiveTo evaluate the performance of real‐time elastography (RTE) in an initial biopsy setting.
Patients and MethodsIn the period from February 2011 to June 2012, 127 consecutive patients were included in the study.We used a Hitachi Preirus with Hi‐RTE module, a prostate end‐fire transrectal probe was used for RTE and for targeted biopsies, and a simultaneous biplane probe was used for the standard...
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