A Prospective Randomized Trial of Two Different Prostate Biopsy Schemes

Using the extended sextant fashion prostate biopsy, this randomized group was submitted to a 20-fragments core-biopsy to evaluate the diagnostic power, pain perception and complications comparative to institution's standard 12 cores.

Using the institution's standard local anesthesia protocol (base injection) as active comparator group, this randomized group was submitted to base and apex local anesthetic application to evaluate tolerability of the procedure, pain perception (with use of previous validated analogue pain scale) and complications.