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Q: Urogenital ultrasound

asked by: DoctorQuestion on February 7th, 2008

Urogenital Ultrasound

what does it normally show if a patient is diagnosed with PROSTATE CANCER?

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Dr. Nikola Gjuzelov , MD

replied on February 11th, 2008

Prostate Cancer Answer A3639

A urogenital ultrasound can locate prostate cancer, can estimate how much the tumor has spread, can present assumptions about whether local lymph nodes affected (or not) and can identify possible metastases in distant abdominal organs like the liver, for example.

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