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- Title
Editorial Comment from Dr Mitsunari to Intraprostatic prophylactic antibiotic injection in patients undergoing transrectal ultrasonography‐guided prostate biopsy.
- Authors
Mitsunari, Kensuke
- Abstract
Prostate biopsy is necessary to diagnose prostate cancer; however, hematuria, rectal bleeding, urine retention, urinary tract infection and many other complications associated with prostatitis are common as a result of transrectal prostate biopsies. Editorial Comment from Dr Mitsunari to Intraprostatic prophylactic antibiotic injection in patients undergoing transrectal ultrasonography-guided prostate biopsy Rectal cultures before transrectal ultrasound-guided prostate biopsy reduce post-prostatic biopsy infection rates.
- Subjects
PROSTATE biopsy; INJECTIONS; ANTIBIOTIC prophylaxis; ANTIBIOTICS; PROSTATITIS; PROSTATE cancer; URINARY tract infections; NEEDLE biopsy
- Publication
International Journal of Urology, 2021, Vol 28, Issue 6, p687
- ISSN
0919-8172
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/iju.14555