Email: [email protected] Abstract Background: A transrectal ultrasound-guided prostate biopsy is currently the gold standard procedure to detect prostatic adenocarcinoma. There is little information on the clinical utility of this technique for the detection of prostate adenocarcinoma in men with suspected prostate cancer in Pakistan. This study seeks to determine the frequency of prostat...

Intraurethral catheters are effective in the treatment of elderly patients with benign prostate hyperplasia (BPH) who have severe complications. However, it is not easy to measure the length of the prostatic urethra and to determine an appropriate location for the urethral catheter using only fluoroscopy, especially in patient with severe mid-lobe enlargement. We attempted to place a shape-memo...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate transrectal ultrasound, amplitude Doppler ultrasound, conventional T2-weighted magnetic resonance imaging, spectroscopy and dynamic contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging in localizing and locally staging low-risk prostate cancer. INTRODUCTION Prostate cancer has been diagnosed at earlier stages and the most accepted classification for low-risk prostate cancer is ...

BACKGROUND The etiology of sudden sensorineural hearing loss (SSNHL) is still unclear and is most probably diverse. OBJECTIVE To determine the relationship between vertebrobasilar circulation and hearing in patients with SSNHL treated with pentoxifylline. DESIGN Case-control study of 32 consecutive patients with SSNHL. METHODS Patients with onset of SSNHL within 72 hours were treated with...

Prostate biopsy is typically performed via either the transrectal or transperineal approach. MRI-targeted biopsy, whether using any of the three options of cognitive fusion, MRI-ultrasound fusion software, or in-bore MRI-guided biopsy, can also be performed via either transrectal or transperineal approaches. As an extension of traditional random prostate biopsy, the transrectal approach is far ...

The operative approach to primary hyperparathyroidism due to a single adenoma remains controversial. We evaluated our experience with 75 patients presenting with primary hyperparathyroidism between January 1979 and September 1988. Prior to 1985 all patients underwent bilateral exploration. During this period, ultrasonographic localization in 6 patients proved highly accurate. Subsequently, rout...

We retrospectively reviewed ultrasonographic data on 32 uveal melanomas that had been studied both at a referral institution and at our centre within a six-week period. Generally there were good correlations between ultrasonographic measurements of tumour thickness. The mean absolute difference in ultrasound measurements of tumour thickness was 0.64 mm (range 0-2.2 mm); the mean tumour thicknes...