Opinion|Videos|July 18, 2024
Overcoming Limitations of Traditional Biopsies with MRI-Guided Biopsies
Author(s)Kyrollis Attalla, MD
A urologic oncologist discusses how MRI- or fusion-guided biopsies have helped overcome the limitations of traditional prostate biopsies.
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Video content above is prompted by the following questions:
- To date, what have been some of the challenges and limitations of prostate biopsy?
- What is MRI- or fusion-guided biopsy? And how has it helped overcome some of those challenges?
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