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 ...

Jeremy P. Grummet, MBBS, MS, FRACS Rising readmission rates of subsequent sepsis have given urologic surgeon Jeremy Grummet, MBBS, MS, FRACS, pause. Although transrectal ultrasonography (TRUS)-guided ...

The current diagnostic pathway that is employed to both detect and rule out prostate cancer involves serum PSA testing and transrectal ultrasonography (TRUS)-guided biopsy. The role of PSA screening ...

The Local Anesthetic Transperineal Prostate biopsy is associated with lower rates of infection and sepsis compared with the ...

Less than 1% of patients who underwent the procedure under local analgesia and without antibiotic prophylaxis experienced post-biopsy infection, a study found. Transperineal magnetic resonance imaging ...

While the majority of prostate cancers are detected in the peripheral zone (PZ), [1] recent MRI data suggest that the anterior zone (AZ) of the prostate, an area that is not palpable on digital rectal ...

When it comes to prostate biopsy, is the transperineal or transrectal route better? Urologists are currently awaiting results from ongoing clinical trials exploring whether transperineal prostate ...

Does variation in prostate volume calculated with MRI versus TRUS lead to reclassification of men based on current PSA density threshold for active surveillance criteria? Result from a prospective ...

Arnhem, The Netherlands - Using Magnetic Resonance Imaging-Ultrasound (MRIUS)- guided prostate biopsy has high sensitivity to detect prostate abnormalities compared with transrectal ultrasonography ...

Results from the phase 3 PRECISE trial showed that MRI with targeted biopsies matched or exceeded the accuracy of the current standard for detecting clinically significant prostate cancer. The current ...