Digital Rectal Examination - Methods (Latest Articles)

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Comparison of pregnancy diagnosis in dairy cattle by use of a commercial ELISA and palpation per rectum.

30 Jul 2009 OBJECTIVE: To compare agreement between 2 pregnancy tests in dairy cattle. DESIGN: Evaluation study. ANIMALS: 976 and 507 cattle for phases 1 and 2, respectively. PROCEDURES: Blood samples were collected, and palpation per rectum (PPR) was performed ...
rec_pub_19650701-comparison-pregnancy-diagnosis-dairy-cattle-use-commercial-elisa.htm

[How to do the rectal exam]

2 Jun 2009
rec_pub_19591351-how-rectal-exam.htm

Lost in translation: unfolding medical students' misconceptions of how to perform a clinical digital rectal examination.

30 Mar 2009 BACKGROUND: Digital rectal examination (DRE) skills are difficult to teach and assess. This study sought to assess the construct validity of newly developed DRE simulators, which were then used to evaluate DRE palpation techniques and accuracy based ...
rec_pub_19324111-lost-translation-unfolding-medical-students-misconceptions-perform.htm

Population based prostate cancer screening in north Mexico reveals a high prevalence of aggressive tumors in detected cases.

22 Mar 2009 BACKGROUND: Prostate Cancer (PCa) is the second most frequent neoplasia in men worldwide. Previous reports suggest that the prevalence of PCa in Hispanic males is lower than in Africans (including communities with African ancestry) and Caucasians, ...
rec_pub_19317909-population-based-prostate-cancer-screening-north-mexico-reveals-high.htm

Frequency and outcome of metaplasia in needle biopsies of prostate and its relation with clinical findings.

30 Dec 2008 INTRODUCTION: Metaplasia is a reversible change in which one adult cell type is replaced by another adult cell type. Our aim was to determine the frequency and outcome of metaplasia in specimens from needle biopsies of the prostate and its relation ...
rec_pub_19472129-frequency-outcome-metaplasia-needle-biopsies-prostate-relation.htm

Patient's reactions to digital rectal examination of the prostate.

30 Aug 2008 OBJECTIVE: In recent years, there has been a rise in the incidence of prostate cancer (PCa), and routine screening for the disease has become a well accepted clinical practice. Even with the recognized benefit of this approach, some men are still ...
rec_pub_18986560-patient-s-reactions-digital-rectal-examination-prostate.htm

The quantification of levator muscle resting tone by digital assessment.

7 Aug 2008 The biomechanical properties of the puborectalis muscle are likely to be important for pelvic organ support. However, neither elasticity nor its clinical correlate, muscle resting tone, have received much attention to date. We therefore conducted a ...
rec_pub_18690404-the-quantification-levator-muscle-resting-tone-digital-assessment.htm

Update on the diagnosis and management of prostate cancer.

30 Jul 2008 Early detection of prostate adenocarcinoma (prostate cancer) through screening tests such as a serum prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test and a digital rectal examination (DRE) enables primary care physicians and urologists to offer patients a ...
rec_pub_18700060-update-diagnosis-management-prostate-cancer.htm

Diabetes mellitus and prostate cancer risk in the Prostate, Lung, Colorectal, and Ovarian Cancer Screening Trial.

8 Jul 2008 OBJECTIVE: A history of diabetes has been fairly consistently related to a reduced prostate cancer risk, but previous investigations have not always addressed whether the relation with diabetes varies by prostate cancer aggressiveness or the ...
rec_pub_18618278-diabetes-mellitus-prostate-cancer-risk-prostate-lung-colorectal.htm

The performance of prostate specific antigen for predicting prostate cancer is maintained after a prior negative prostate biopsy.

9 Jun 2008 PURPOSE: It has been suggested that prostate specific antigen has no predictive value for prostate cancer after a first negative biopsy has been performed. We compared the performance operating characteristics of prostate specific antigen for ...
rec_pub_18550097-the-performance-prostate-specific-antigen-predicting-prostate-cancer.htm

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