Clinical examination,PSA and transrectal ultrasound in the detection of prostate cancer. Our experience

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– In this retrospective study, the Authors report their experience on the analysis of sensitivity and specificity of DRE, PSA and transrectal ultrasound, individually and in association, in the study of 118 patients with suspected prostate cancer. Results show that the association of these three techniques give a specificity of 96.6% but low sensitivity (53%).

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DRE PSA ecografia prostatica transrettale sensibilità specificità transrectal ultrasound sensitivity specificity

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