Prostate Biopsy (eBook)

Indications, Techniques, and Complications

J. Stephen Jones (Herausgeber)

eBook Download: PDF

2009 | 2008
344 Seiten
Humana Press (Verlag)
978-1-60327-078-6 (ISBN)

Infos

Prostate biopsy is now one of the most common procedures performed by urologists. This book presents all topics related to the diagnosis of prostate cancer, including risk factor assessment, indications for biopsy, techniques, complications, and emerging technologies in the science. It also covers such important topics in prostate biopsy as PSA, pain prevention, prediction models, and biopsy techniques. The book's contributors include those who have defined the science of prostate cancer diagnosis and continue to improve upon it. These internationally acclaimed specialists provide their expert opinions on all topics related to prostate cancer diagnosis.

Steven Jones, MD, is the Vice Chairman of hte Glickman Urological Institute at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, one of the foremost departments of urology in the world.  He is an expert in many aspects of urological science and medicine and has assembled the greatest international team to address the questions surrounding prostate biopsy.

 

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Advances in prostate biopsy have made major complications uncommon and prostate biopsy is now one of the most common procedures performed by urologists. In Prostate Biopsy: Indications, Techniques, and Complications, all topics related to the diagnosis of prostate cancer, including risk factor assessment, indications for biopsy, techniques, complications, and emerging technologies in the science are presented. Topics of great importance in the field of prostate biopsy such as PSA, pain prevention, prediction models, and biopsy techniques are addressed Internationally acclaimed specialists provide their expert opinions on all topics related to prostate cancer diagnosis. Browsing the list of authors involves recognition of those who have defined the science of prostate cancer diagnosis and those who continue to improve it on an ongoing basis. Prostate Biopsy: Indications, Techniques, and Complications provides today's most comprehensive and state of the art material written about prostate biopsy.

Inhalt

Preface 7
Contents 9
Contributors 11
1 Defining the Problem: From Subclinical Disease to Clinically Insignificant Prostate Cancer 13
2 What Every Patient Should Know about Prostate Cancer Before He Submits to Biopsy of His Prostate 24
3 Prostate-Specific Antigen and Prostate Cancer Screening 26
4 The Role of Complexed Prostate-Specific Antigen in Prostate Cancer Screening 39
5 Newly Recognized Forms of Prostate-Specific Antigen and Emerging Molecular Markers 52
6 The Role of Prostate-Specific Antigen in the Diagnosis and Management of Prostate Cancer 69
7 Prostate Cancer Screening: Navigating the Controversy 79
8 Prostate Cancer Nomograms and How They Measure Up to Neural Networks 91
9 Preparation for Prostate Biopsy 105
10 Principles of Prostate Ultrasound 113
11 Minimizing Pain and Optimizing Patient Experience During Prostate Biopsy 128
12 Prostate Biopsy Techniques 150
13 Biopsy Strategies - How Many and Where? 171
14 Transperineal Prostate Biopsy 185
15 Repeat Prostate Biopsies and the Vienna Nomograms 204
16 Saturation Biopsy for Detection and Characterization of Prostate Cancer 222
17 Pathologic Implications of Prostate Biopsy 235
18 Complications of Transrectal Ultrasound-Guided Prostate Biopsy 259
19 Management and Controversies of High-Grade Prostatic Intraepithelial Neoplasia and Atypical Small Acinar Proliferation on Prostate Biopsy 273
20 Future Directions in Prostate Cancer Diagnosis 291
Index 317

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 29.12.2009
• Reihe/Serie: Current Clinical Urology
• Reihe/Serie: Current Clinical Urology
• Zusatzinfo: 344 p. 77 illus.
• Verlagsort: Totowa
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Innere Medizin
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Urologie
• Themenwelt: Studium ► 1. Studienabschnitt (Vorklinik) ► Histologie / Embryologie
• Schlagworte: biopsy • Cancer • Clinical • kidney • Pain • prevention • Prostate • Prostate Cancer • Ultrasound • Urology
• ISBN-10: 1-60327-078-7 / 1603270787
• ISBN-13: 978-1-60327-078-6 / 9781603270786