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[Ambulatory diagnosis of prostatic growth. Analysis of the basic methods to determine its benign or malignant nature]
F J Blasco Casares1, J M Saladié Roig, S Bayona Areñas
1Servicio de Urología, Hospital Germans Trias i Pujol, Badalona, Barcelona.
Actas Urologicas Espanolas
|July 1, 1990
Abstract:
Correlation between different diagnostic procedures rectal touch (RT), intravenous urography (IU), ultrasonography (USG), acid phosphatases and prostatic fraction (AFPF) and the histology of benign and malign growths is analyzed, as well as the relationship between different combinations of these procedures and histology, addressing sensitivity, specificity and negative and positive predictive values; according to our experience RT and USG obtain the best results.