Diagnostic Value of ERG in Prostate Needle Biopsies Containing Minute Cancer Foci

Bachurska Svitlana Y.; Staykov Dmitriy G.; Bakardzhiev Ivan V.; Antonov Petar A.; Belovezhdov Veselin T.

doi:10.1515/folmed-2017-0001

Folia Medica (Mar 2017)

Diagnostic Value of ERG in Prostate Needle Biopsies Containing Minute Cancer Foci

Bachurska Svitlana Y.,
Staykov Dmitriy G.,
Bakardzhiev Ivan V.,
Antonov Petar A.,
Belovezhdov Veselin T.

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Bachurska Svitlana Y.: Department of General and Clinical Pathology and Forensic Medicine, Medical University of Plovdiv, 15A Vasil Aprilov Blvd., 4002 Plovdiv, Bulgaria Bulgaria
Staykov Dmitriy G.: Department of General and Clinical Pathology and Forensic Medicine, Medical University of Plovdiv, 15A Vasil Aprilov Blvd., 4002 Plovdiv, Bulgaria Bulgaria
Bakardzhiev Ivan V.: Department of Urology, Medical University of Plovdiv, Plovdiv, Bulgaria Bulgaria
Antonov Petar A.: Department of Urology, Medical University of Plovdiv, Plovdiv, Bulgaria Bulgaria
Belovezhdov Veselin T.: Department of General and Clinical Pathology and Forensic Medicine, Medical University of Plovdiv, 15A Vasil Aprilov Blvd., 4002 Plovdiv, Bulgaria Bulgaria

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/folmed-2017-0001
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 59, no. 1
pp. 84 – 90

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Background: Prostate carcinoma (PC) is the second most diagnosed cancer in men population worldwide. The small amount of the tissue in prostate needle biopsy is often sufficient for the correct interpretation. Novel antibodies, as ERG, could add to the diagnostic value of IHC study in analysing difficult core biopsies.

Published in Folia Medica

ISSN: 0204-8043 (Print); 1314-2143 (Online)
Publisher: Pensoft Publishers
Country of publisher: Bulgaria
LCC subjects: Medicine
Website: https://foliamedica.bg

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