Overview
- All topics related to the diagnosis of prostate cancer are presented
- Topics of great importance such as PSA, pain prevention, prediction models, and biopsy techniques are included
- Internationally acclaimed specialists provide their expert opinions on prostate cancer diagnosis
- Prostate Biopsy: Indications, Techniques, and Complications provides the most comprehensive information on prostate biopsy
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Current Clinical Urology (CCU)
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Table of contents (20 chapters)
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Front Matter
Keywords
About this book
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.
Reviews
From the reviews:
"20 chapters in this book read as independent articles that delve into many of the most recent discoveries and controversies surrounding prostate cancer diagnosis. … It presents a good overview of different variations on the PSA blood test and describes the key elements of prostate biopsy. This is a valuable resource for scientists/clinicians who are dedicated to working in the area of prostate cancer diagnosis. … The chapters provide excellent discussions of their topics and the book is an excellent resource for readers … ." (Ethan J Halpern, Doody’s Review Service, August, 2008)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Prostate Biopsy
Book Subtitle: Indications, Techniques, and Complications
Editors: J. Stephen Jones
Series Title: Current Clinical Urology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-60327-078-6
Publisher: Humana Totowa, NJ
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Humana Press 2008
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-58829-790-7Published: 21 March 2008
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-61737-780-8Published: 19 November 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-1-60327-078-6Published: 29 December 2009
Series ISSN: 2197-7194
Series E-ISSN: 2197-7208
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: 344
Number of Illustrations: 77 b/w illustrations
Topics: Urology, Internal Medicine