Incidental findings on prostate MRI in a population-based screening setting.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To describe the frequency and types of incidental findings on prostate MRI in a screening setting.

Materials and methods

Prostate MRI reports from 2020 to 2024 for men aged 50-56 years were collected from three regional organised prostate cancer testing (OPT) programmes in Sweden. Incidental findings were categorised as suspicious for extra-prostatic malignancy, otherwise likely clinically relevant or of low or no clinical relevance that do not motivate contact with the screened man. Confidence intervals (CI) were calculated for proportions of scans with an incidental finding. Chi-square testing was used to test inter-regional differences of reported findings.

Results

At least one incidental finding was described in 119/1202 (9.9%) MRI reports. Ten reports d

SUBMITTER: Huang V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12644368 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature