Can pain during digital rectal examination help us to decide the necessity and the method of anesthesia for transrectal ultrasound guided prostate needle biopsy?

Can pain during digital rectal examination help us to decide the necessity and the method of anesthesia for transrectal ultrasound guided prostate needle biopsy?

OBJECTIVE: Transrectal ultrasound (TRUS) guided prostate biopsy is well tolerated by patients but the lack of an effective marker to predict pain prevents us from determining pre-procedurally which patient group needs local anesthesia for biopsy and probe pain. Thus in this study, we investigated pr...

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Main Authors: Onur Kaygisiz, Gurdal Inal, Metin Tas, Ozgur Ugurlu, Bulent Ozturk, Oztug Adsan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Urologia 2007-08-01
Series:International Brazilian Journal of Urology
Subjects:
prostate biopsy
pain
predictive factors
digital rectal examination
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