Endoscopic ultrasound-guided fine needle aspiration biopsy (EUS-FNA) is currently performed on a routine basis at many endoscopic centers and it is evident that this procedure has a major impact ...

Does combined anesthesia aimed at addressing the two sources of pain associated with transrectal ultrasound-guided prostate biopsy provide ... fibers at the time of needle insertion into the ...

requiring complicated co-registration procedures to perform an accurate targeted biopsy into the most worrisome regions of the prostate. “Proceeding directly to a micro-ultrasound study avoids ...

A new international study has shown that a new imaging method called micro-ultrasound (microUS) is just as effective as MRI ...

A trial found no meaningful difference in detection of clinically significantly prostate ... biopsy and combined microultrasonography/MRI biopsy were noninferior to conventional MRI-ultrasound ...

A prostate biopsy procedure is when a doctor, often a urologist, inserts a long needle into the prostate ... lay down on their side and we insert an ultrasound probe into the rectum in order ...

Adopting the new tool, named micro-ultrasound – or microUS ... with MRI ones specifically for prostate cancer. As part of the trial, 677 men underwent biopsy at 19 hospitals across Canada ...

A core needle biopsy, the main method for diagnosing prostate cancer, is typically performed in a physician’s office by a urologist. Using transrectal ultrasound (TRUS) and a local anesthetic, the ...

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Fine-needle aspiration biopsy of the thyroid nodule is a procedure in which a small sample of cells is obtained from a thyroid nodule with the aid of a thin needle under ultrasound guidance.

OPTIMUM is the first randomized trial to compare micro-ultrasound (microUS) guided biopsy with MRI-guided biopsy for prostate cancer. It involved 677 men who underwent biopsy at 19 hospitals ...