Doctors use a combination of tests, including urinalysis, cystoscopy, urine culture, and bladder wall biopsy to diagnose interstitial cystitis. For males, they may also examine prostate secretions.

Background: A 59-year-old man on exogenous androgen therapypresented with a clinically palpable prostate nodule confined to onelobe on endorectal examination. Serum prostate-specific antigen was3.4 ng ...

Pre-procedure urinalysis can be skipped before certain office-based urology procedures, such as prostate biopsy and cystoscopy, according to the results of a randomized trial. Some centers perform the ...

A cystoscopy is a procedure that involves inserting a tool into the urethra and up into the bladder to examine these organs. The tool is a cystoscope — a thin, flexible instrument with a light and a ...

How Is Prostate Cancer Diagnosed? Two initial tests are commonly used to look for prostate cancer in the absence of any symptoms. One is the digital rectal exam, in which a doctor feels the prostate ...

Pathological evaluations of the prostate variably reveal incidental prostate cancer in 24–51% of patients with muscle-invasive bladder cancer (MIBC) undergoing radical cystoprostatectomy (RCP) The ...