Historically, systematic prostate biopsies were highly morbid, causing significant edema, bleeding, and high rates of urinary retention. — Whalespan
Historically, systematic prostate biopsies were highly morbid, causing significant edema, bleeding, and high rates of urinary retention.
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“however doing the prostate biopsy in a way that you could systematically sample the prostate with that approach has historically been very morbid because what they would do is they would place a grid like every 2 millimeters 2 millimet by 2 mm grid along the perineum and they would make between let's say 20 and 30 individual pokes into the Paran and into the prostate that was how we you can deliver radioactive seeds or radioactive pellets but that approach was also used to do biopsies that results in significant edema and swelling on the prostate and significant bleeding and urinary retention rates after that approach are very high 15 20% wow and it's very painful you can't do it awake
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