... on prostate biopsy in second screen-detected PCa [ 9 ] or at repeat saturation prostate biopsy (SPBx) [ 10 ] is equal to 29 and 41%, respectively. Moreover, pIPCa after radical prostatectomy ranges from 22–33% [ 11,12,13 ] up to 60–70% [ 2,8,12 ], including a 0.8% possibility of not finding the cancer at all...

...Carmen Maccagnano; Andrea Gallina; Marco Roscigno; Marco Raber; Umberto Capitanio; Antonino Saccà; Federico Pellucchi; Nazareno Suardi; Firas Abdollah; Francesco Montorsi; Patrizio Rigatti; Vincenzo Scattoni Introduction: Saturation prostate biopsy (SPBx) has been initially introduced to improve...

...Pietro Pepe; Francesco Aragona Introduction: To evaluate if an inflammatory pattern at primary biopsy is associated with a lower risk for cancer in men submitted to repeated saturation prostate biopsy (SPBx). Methods: From January 2005 to January 2010, 320 patients, after a negative primary...

...Pietro Pepe; Giuseppe Candiano; Filippo Fraggetta; Antonio Galia; Giuseppe Grasso; Francesco Aragona Objectives: To evaluate retrospectively the detection rate of prostate cancer (PCa) located only in the transition zone (TZ) by directed cores at repeated saturation prostate biopsy (SPB). Methods...

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