Hepatitis C virus (HCV) recurrence after liver transplantation (LT) is universal and progressive. Here, we report recent results of response-guided therapy for HCV recurrence based on early protocol biopsy after LT. We reviewed patients who underwent LT for HCV related liver disease between 2010 and 2012. Protocol biopsies were performed at 3, 6, and 12 months after LT in HCV recurrence (positi...

Background. Transrectal prostate biopsy is the standard protocol for the screening for prostate cancer. It helps to locate prostatic adenocarcinoma and plan treatment. However, the increasing number of prostate biopsies leads to considerably greater costs for the pathology laboratories. In this study, we compare the traditional method with an ink method in combination with a systematic histopat...

PURPOSE The goal of this study was to evaluate the diagnostic effect of adding a midline peripheral zone (PZ) biopsy to the 12-core biopsy protocol used to diagnose prostate cancer (PC), and to assess the clinical and pathologic characteristics of midline-positive PC in order to identify a potential subgroup of patients who would require midline PZ biopsy. METHODS This study included 741 cons...

Experts’ summary: This much-anticipated study reports the diagnostic accuracy of multiparametric magnetic resonance imaging (mpMRI)– and transrectal ultrasound (TRUS)–guided biopsy of the prostate compared to a reference standard of transperineal mapping (TPM) biopsy of the prostate in men with a suspicion of prostate cancer. In a prospective multicenter study, the authors enrolled 740 men, 576...

since sturgeons have no external sexual dimorphism and there are no external markers to determine sex, internal examination of the gonads should be used to sex identification. the present study describes the biopsy method and histological observations of the gonads of great sturgeon (huso huso) in both sexes at different age classes. sex and maturity stages of 226 great sturgeons were identifie...

background evaluation of a transplanted liver by imaging techniques and enzyme changes is sensitive to hepatocellular or biliary problems, but in most instances liver allograft biopsies are performed in order to find out the final reason for these changes. objectives it’s been about 17 years (with more than 1326 cases) since the first liver transplantation in the namazi hospital of shiraz unive...

BACKGROUND Transrectal ultrasound guided biopsy of the prostate is the most common modality used to diagnose prostate cancer. OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to evaluate the optimal number of cores at prostate biopsy, which have the most diagnostic value with least adverse effects. PATIENTS AND MATERIALS Transrectal ultrasonography (TRUS) guided biopsy was performed in 180 patients sus...