Urology
Volume 69, Issue 3 , Pages 491-494 , March 2007

Tramadol Improves Patients’ Tolerance of Transrectal Ultrasound-Guided Prostate Biopsy

  • Irina Hirsh

      Affiliations

    • Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Lady Davis Carmel Medical Center and B. & R. Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion–Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Irina Hirsh, M.D., Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Lady Davis Carmel Medical Center, 7 Michal Street, Haifa 34362, Israel.
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  • Alexander Kaploun

      Affiliations

    • Department of Urology, Lady Davis Carmel Medical Center and B. & R. Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion–Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
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  • Gazy Faris

      Affiliations

    • Department of Urology, Lady Davis Carmel Medical Center and B. & R. Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion–Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
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  • Boaz Appel

      Affiliations

    • Department of Urology, Lady Davis Carmel Medical Center and B. & R. Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion–Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
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  • Ilia Shneider

      Affiliations

    • Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Lady Davis Carmel Medical Center and B. & R. Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion–Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
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  • Avi Stein

      Affiliations

    • Department of Urology, Lady Davis Carmel Medical Center and B. & R. Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion–Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
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  • Reuven Pizov

      Affiliations

    • Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Lady Davis Carmel Medical Center and B. & R. Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion–Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel

Received 13 May 2006 ,Accepted 24 October 2006.

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 The present study was solely supported by the Lady Davis Carmel Medical Center, and no extra-institutional funding was accepted.

 The authors affirm that no funding agreement limited their ability fairly to complete and publish their research, and that they had full control of primary data.

PII: S0090-4295(06)02449-6

doi: 10.1016/j.urology.2006.10.035

Urology
Volume 69, Issue 3 , Pages 491-494 , March 2007

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