BJU Int 2020 08 19;126(2):280-285. Epub 2020 May 19.
Department of Urology, Guy's and Saint Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK.
Objectives: To assess whether targeted cognitive freehand-assisted transperineal biopsies using a Precisionpoint device still require additional systematic biopsies to avoid missing clinically significant prostate cancer, and to investigate the benefit of a quadrant-only biopsy approach to analyse whether a quadrant or extended target of the quadrant containing the target only would have been equivalent to systematic biopsy.
Patients And Methods: Patients underwent combined systematic mapping and targeted transperineal prostate biopsies at a single institution. Biopsies were performed using the Precisionpoint device (Perineologic, Cumberland, MD, USA) under either local anaesthetic (58%, 163/282), i. Read More