European Randomised Study of Screening for Prostate Cancer (ERSPC) risk calculators significantly outperform the Prostate Cancer Prevention Trial (PCPT) 2.0 in …

RW Foley, RM Maweni, L Gorman, K Murphy… - BJU …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Objective To analyse the performance of the Prostate Cancer Prevention Trial Risk
Calculator (PCPT‐RC) and two iterations of the European Randomised Study of Screening …

Does prostate size predict the development of incident lower urinary tract symptoms in men with mild to no current symptoms? Results from the REDUCE trial

RM Simon, LE Howard, DM Moreira, C Roehrborn… - European urology, 2016 - Elsevier
Background It has been shown that increased prostate size is a risk factor for lower urinary
tract symptom (LUTS) progression in men who currently have LUTS presumed due to …

Digital rectal examination standardization for inexperienced hands: teaching medical students

LO Reis, AFL Simão, J Baracat, F Denardi… - Advances in …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Objectives. To standardize digital rectal examination (DRE) and set how it correlates with the
comprehensive evaluation of lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS). Methods. After scaled …

Dichotomous estimation of prostate volume: a diagnostic study of the accuracy of the digital rectal examination

MZ Su, D Lenaghan, HH Woo - The World Journal of Men's …, 2013 - synapse.koreamed.org
Purpose To assess the diagnostic reliability of a dichotomous digital rectal examination
(DRE) tool in assessing prostate volume (PV) compared to gold-standard transrectal …

Prospective evaluation on the effect of interobserver variability of digital rectal examination on the performance of the Rotterdam Prostate Cancer Risk Calculator

N Pereira‐Azevedo, I Braga… - … Journal of Urology, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Objectives To assess the level of agreement between digital rectal examination findings of
two urologists and its effect on risk prediction using the digital rectal examination‐based …

Accuracy of transrectal ultrasonography to evaluate pathologic prostate weight: correlation with various prostate size groups

M Bienz, PA Hueber, N Al-Hathal, M McCormack… - Urology, 2014 - Elsevier
Objective To report the accuracy of transrectal ultrasonography (TRUS) to measure prostate
size before robotic-assisted radical prostatectomy using the prolate ellipsoid formula and its …

Does digital rectal examination predict prostate volume greater than 30 mL?

T Yamamoto, F Fukuta… - International Journal of …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Objectives To investigate the accuracy of digital rectal examination in estimating prostate
volume in patients with lower urinary tract symptoms suggestive of benign prostatic …

The prostate cancer screening clinic in the Bahamas: a model for low-and middle-income countries

R Roberts, C Mitchell, AL Tancawan, M Pedican… - Cancer Causes & …, 2017 - Springer
Abstract Purpose Grand Bahama (pop. 51,000) is an island within the Bahamas
archipelago. A local chapter of International Us TOO Prostate Cancer Support Group (UTGB) …

A systematic review of the accuracy of the digital rectal examination as a method of measuring prostate gland volume

DRH Christie, J Windsor… - Journal of Clinical …, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
Objective: There are many important clinical scenarios in which estimates of the volume of
the prostate gland can have an influence on clinical decisions. The digital rectal examination …

ACR Appropriateness Criteria® lower urinary tract symptoms-suspicion of benign prostatic hyperplasia

LF Alexander, A Oto, BC Allen, O Akin, J Chong… - Journal of the American …, 2019 - Elsevier
Lower urinary tract symptoms due to benign prostatic enlargement have a high prevalence
in men over 50 years of age. Diagnosis is made with a combination of focused history and …