Local anesthetic transperineal (LATP) biopsy for prostate cancer detection is gaining in popularity due to concerns about infectious complications with transrectal ultrasound (TRUS) biopsy.

transperineal biopsy is better in certain respects – although perhaps not as much better as we previously thought – but that there are some problems, particularly related to the pain caused by the ...

"The results show that transperineal biopsy is better at diagnosing clinically ... particularly related to the pain caused by the procedure. Also, in a separate piece of work that we have carried ...

You usually have between 12 and 15 biopsies taken. The whole procedure takes about 20 to 30 minutes. You may have more biopsies if you have a transperineal biopsy under general anaesthetic. Sometimes ...

Transperineal biopsies avoid the rectum ... our focus from picking a winner to instead focus on whether prostate biopsy procedures are safe and effective. Patients should be reassured that ...

with biopsy performed via either a transperineal or a transrectal approach, enhance the identification, localization and characterization of prostate cancers, compared with conventional office biopsy.

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Biopsy with local anesthetic ultrasound-guided transperineal (LATP) identified more clinically significant prostate cancers than transrectal ultrasound (TRUS), but the procedure came with ...