Vergleichende Untersuchungen der Saug- und Stanzbiopsie der Prostata

The Effectiveness of Transrectal Aspiration Cytology in the Diagnosis of Prostatic Cancer

“…Experience demonstrates that more reliable results can be obtained from transrectal biopsies, taken either with the Franzen needle or wi th the trucut needle when the operation takes place under light sedation. This is particularly true for transrectal trucut biopsy which is a little more troublesome for the patient, which can be deduced from the more serious degree of the complications (25,26), confirmed in the literature (11,17,25,26). Since the first report of Franzen et al (9) several other authors, both clinicians and cytopathologists, have reached the same conclusions (3,4,6,7,12,14,18,(23)(24)(25)(27)(28)(29).…”