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Complications of transrectal ultrasound guided prostate needle biopsy: Our experience and review of the literature

Our study demonstrated that prostate biopsy is an intervention relatively well tolerated by patients with the complications that are neither dangerous nor too frequent. In most cases they included hematuria , however, manifesting at a significantly lower rate than reported elsewhere, and resolved spontaneously. In case of infections , they responded well to antibiotic teraphy, so that hospitalization was required in les than 1% of patients. the level of pain during and after prostate biopsy wasassessed by the patients as low, although it is an unppleasant invasive diagnostic examination. If the benefits are weighed against complications, the performance of prostate biopsy will certainly prove justifiable on the outpatient basis and without the need of local or regional anesthesia.

biopsy-methods; biopsy-adverse effects; needle-ultrasonography

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