JOURNAL OF UROLOGY, vol.168, no.2, pp.558-561, 2002 (SCI-Expanded)
Purpose: Periprostatic local anesthesia for prostate biopsy requires 2 or more extra needle punctures and injection of the local anesthetic through the highly colonized rectum. To our knowledge we report the first prospective randomized trial to assess the infectious or hemorrhagic complications associated with this method.