TY - JOUR AU - Tolonen, Teemu T. AU - Isola, Jorma AU - Kaipia, Antti AU - Riikonen, Jarno AU - Koivusalo, Laura AU - Huovinen, Sanna AU - Laurila, Marita AU - Porre, Sinikka AU - Tirkkonen, Mika AU - Kujala, Paula PY - 2015 DA - 2015/03/08 TI - Length of prostate biopsies is not necessarily compromised by pooling multiple cores in one paraffin block: an observational study JO - BMC Clinical Pathology SP - 4 VL - 15 IS - 1 AB - Individually submitted prostatic needle biopsies are recommended by most guidelines because of their potential advantage in terms of core quality. However, unspecified bilateral biopsies are commonly submitted in many centers. The length of the core is the key quality indicator of prostate biopsies. Because there are few recent publications comparing the quality of 12 site-designated biopsies versus pooled biopsies, we compared the lengths of the biopsies obtained by both methods. SN - 1472-6890 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s12907-015-0001-9 DO - 10.1186/s12907-015-0001-9 ID - Tolonen2015 ER -