Incidence and Variables Predicting Gleason Score Up-Grading between Trans-Rectal Ultrasound-Guided Prostate Biopsies and Radical Prostatectomy
Urologia Internationalis, 03/12/2010
Bright E et al. – Despite increasing the number of cores taken at biopsy, in order to improve prostate cancer diagnosis, a substantial percentage of men still experience Gleason score up–grading from biopsy to RP. In addition, the authors were unable to determine any predicting factors for this up–grading.







