TREXIT:initial experience with transperineal prostate biopsy under local anesthesia in an outpatient setting in South East Asia

作     者：Arianto Yuwono Rolando Salada Teck Wei Tan Arianto Yuwono;Rolando Salada;Teck Wei Tan

作者机构：Department of UrologyTan Tock Seng Hospital11 Jalan Tan Tock SengSingapore 308433Singapore 

出 版 物：《Asian Journal of Andrology》 (亚洲男性学杂志（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2021年第23卷第5期

页      面：543-544页

核心收录：

学科分类：100208[医学-临床检验诊断学] 1002[医学-临床医学] 100210[医学-外科学(含：普外、骨外、泌尿外、胸心外、神外、整形、烧伤、野战外)] 10[医学] 

主　　题：anesthesia biopsy perineal 

摘      要：Dear Editor,Compared to transrectal prostate biopsy,transperineal(TP)prostate biopsy avoids rectal bacteria,and thus,significantly reduces the risk of *** studies have shown extremely low rates of infection following TP prostate biopsies.1,2 Traditionally,TP prostate biopsies have been performed in the operating theater under general or spinal ***,the introduction of the PrecisionPoint Transperineal Access System(Perineologic,Cumberland,MD,USA)facilitates freehand TP prostate biopsies to be performed under local anesthesia(LA).1,2 In this study,we present our initial experience with TP prostate biopsy using the device under LA in an outpatient *** is the first report of TP prostate biopsy under LA in South East Asia.