|Videos|September 5, 2021
Advantages of transperineal biopsies over transrectal biopsies
Author(s)Urology Times staff
“The transperineal [prostate biopsy] approach is safer because the needles are passed through the perineal skin…so, we can sterilize that skin and if we enter through that passageway, we mitigate, if not eliminate, the risk of infection and sepsis,” says Matthew J. Allaway, MD.
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In this video, Matthew J. Allaway, MD, assesses the differences between the transrectal and transperineal approaches to prostate biopsy and the overall advantage of the transperineal biopsy in detecting cancer and preventing infection. Allaway is the founder and president of Perinealogic, and a urologist and managing partner at Urology Associates, Cumberland, Maryland.
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