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===Work-up=== | ===Work-up=== | ||
#Review biopsy | #Review biopsy if available. | ||
#*Is it plausible? | #*Is it plausible? | ||
#**Biopsies in minimal cancer prostatectomies usually have | #**Biopsies in negative prostatectomies ''or'' minimal cancer prostatectomies usually have a small volume of low grade cancer. | ||
#**A negative prostatectomy with high-grade cancer on biopsy ''or'' a large volume of disease on biopsy should prompt identity testing.<ref name=pmid15767799>{{Cite journal | last1 = Cao | first1 = D. | last2 = Hafez | first2 = M. | last3 = Berg | first3 = K. | last4 = Murphy | first4 = K. | last5 = Epstein | first5 = JI. | title = Little or no residual prostate cancer at radical prostatectomy: vanishing cancer or switched specimen?: a microsatellite analysis of specimen identity. | journal = Am J Surg Pathol | volume = 29 | issue = 4 | pages = 467-73 | month = Apr | year = 2005 | doi = | PMID = 15767799 }} | #**A negative prostatectomy with high-grade cancer on biopsy ''or'' a large volume of disease on biopsy should prompt identity testing.<ref name=pmid15767799>{{Cite journal | last1 = Cao | first1 = D. | last2 = Hafez | first2 = M. | last3 = Berg | first3 = K. | last4 = Murphy | first4 = K. | last5 = Epstein | first5 = JI. | title = Little or no residual prostate cancer at radical prostatectomy: vanishing cancer or switched specimen?: a microsatellite analysis of specimen identity. | journal = Am J Surg Pathol | volume = 29 | issue = 4 | pages = 467-73 | month = Apr | year = 2005 | doi = | PMID = 15767799 }} | ||
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