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Contrast-enhanced transrectal ultrasound can reduce collection of unnecessary biopsies when diagnosing prostate cancer and is predictive of biochemical recurrence following a radical prostatectomy in patients with localized prostate cancer

Crossref DOI link: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12894-020-00659-6

Published Online: 2020-07-16

Published Print: 2020-12

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Authors

Zhao, Hong-wei

Li, Jian

Cao, Jia-Zheng

Lin, Juan

Wang, Zhu

Lv, Jian-yao

Wei, Jin-huan

Chen, Zhen-hua

Yao, Hao-hua

Pan, Yi-hui

Gao, Zhen-li

Luo, Jun-hang

Chen, Wei

Shi, Lei

Fang, Yong https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2445-8441
Funding

Funding for this research was provided by:

Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province (ZR2013HL070)

Key Technology Research and Development Program of Shandong (2016WS0712)

Key Technology Research and Development Program of Shandong (2016YFC0902602)

National Natural Science Foundation of China (81972376)
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Article History

Received: 16 July 2019

Accepted: 26 June 2020

First Online: 16 July 2020

Ethics approval and consent to participate

: This study has been approved by the Institutional Ethical Committee of Yantai Yuhuangding Hospital, First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University and Cancer Center of Sun Yat-sen University. Written informed consent was obtained from each patient prior to data collection and experiments.

: Not applicable.

: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.

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