PURPOSE We documented the results of high energy transurethral microwave thermotherapy in the treatment of benign prostatic hyperplasia. MATERIALS AND METHODS We evaluated 116 patients following transurethral microwave thermotherapy according to symptom scores, transrectal ultrasound, free voiding and pressure-flow study parameters. RESULTS Significant improvement was noted in all objective...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to compare the efficacies of oral ciprofloxacin administration and oral trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole (TMP-SMX) regimens in preventing infectious complications following transrectal ultrasound guided biopsy of the prostate. MATERIAL AND METHODS Between 2011-2013, the medical records of 391 (mean age 64.62±7.64 years; range 40 to 87 years) patients who under...

PURPOSE There are many reports about the usefulness of transrectal power-Doppler ultrasonography (PDUS) for detecting prostate cancer because of the high microvessel density in cancerous tissue in the prostate. The purpose of this study was to assess the role of PDUS and contrast-enhanced transrectal power-Doppler ultrasonography (enhanced PDUS) in the identification of prostate cancer. MATER...

PURPOSE To determine the role of magnetic resonance (MR) imaging performed with a combined endorectal body phased-array coil for patients with elevated prostate-specific antigen (PSA) levels or suspicious free-to-total PSA ratios in whom prior transrectal ultrasonographically (US) guided biopsy findings were negative for prostate cancer. MATERIALS AND METHODS Forty-four patients with PSA leve...

Transrectal prostatic ultrasonography has been performed in 203 patients within the last year. This new diagnostic modality has proven reliable in quantitating decrease in volume of the primary tumor following therapy in 71% of patients with prostatic carcinoma (10 of 14 patients) in whom long-term follow-up is available. In 12 patients staged prior to radical prostatectomy, prostatic ultrasono...

Introduction and Objective: Prostate biopsies are mainly performed under 2D TransRectal UltraSound (TRUS) control by sampling the prostate according to a predefined pattern. In case of first biopsies, this pattern follows a random systematic plan. Sometimes, repeat biopsies can be needed to target regions unsampled by previous biopsies or resample critical regions (for example in case of cancer...