Contact Associates in Urology - Pioneers in Urology Patient Information and Forms Directions to Our Office - Associates in Urology - West Orange, New Jersey Referring Physician Information Associates in Urology - Pioneers in Urology Home Associates in Urology Pysicians and Staff Urological Clinical Conditions Robotic Urological Surgery Associates in Urology CLinical Trials

« Positive margins after partial nephrectomy | Main | Lowering PSA and PSA velocity: Are we doing the best thing »

You probably should perform a repeat biopsy after high grade pin (HGPIN)

IngentaConnect The incidence of high-grade prostatic intraepithelial neoplasia a...:

beige_quote.bmpCONCLUSION:

Identifying multifocal HGPIN on first saturation biopsy is associated with an overall cancer detection rate of 80% on repeat 10-12-core biopsy. Although there were few patients, the detection of multifocal HGPIN warrants additional searches for concurrent invasive carcinoma by repeated biopsy.

The diagnosis of high grade PIN is an area that once required a repeat prostate biopsy. Recently, with an increase the number of biopsies that are done initially, there has been feelings that patients who only have high grade PIN do not need another biopsy. This article suggests that these patients should have a repeat biopsy. I believe follow-up with a PSA is a recent option in older patients with high grade PIN.

TrackBack

TrackBack URL for this entry:
http://www.njurology.com/blog/mt-tb.cgi/212

Post a comment

(If you haven't left a comment here before, you may need to be approved by the site owner before your comment will appear. Until then, it won't appear on the entry. Thanks for waiting.)

Subscribe to This Blog