For decades, it is about ensuring the diagnosis of dangerous forms as early as possible and, in the event of the necessary surgical removal of the affected organ, careful as possible. In recent years, the biopsy has established itself in clarifying a suspected prostate cancer with the support of ultrasound and/or magnetic resonance to increase the accuracy of tissue withdrawal.
Another progress could now be a new micro ultrasound process that was also tested in Linz. With such systems, structures with a resolution of up to 0.07 millimeters can be displayed.
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“This is an improvement of 300 percent compared to conventional ultrasound examination,” urologist Ferdinand Luger from the religious clinic of the Elisabethinen Linz is cited as a study co-author in the magazine of the American medical center.
Source: Nachrichten
