Monitoring blood flow helps improve prostate biopsies
Monday, May 26, 2008 - 13:07
in Health & Medicine
Using a special ultrasound technique to spot areas of blood flow in the prostate gland may substantially reduce the number of unnecessary biopsies, according to a new study by urologists and radiologists at the Jefferson Prostate Diagnostic Centre and the Kimmel Cancer Centre at Jefferson in Philadelphia...
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