Benign Conditions That Mimic Prostate Carcinoma: MR Imaging Features with Histopathologic Correlation.

ABSTRACT: Multiparametric magnetic resonance (MR) imaging combines anatomic and functional imaging techniques for evaluating the prostate and is increasingly being used in diagnosis and management of prostate cancer. A wide spectrum of anatomic and pathologic processes in the prostate may masquerade as prostate cancer, complicating the imaging interpretation. The histopathologic and imaging findings of these potential mimics are reviewed. These entities include the anterior fibromuscular stroma, surgical capsule, central zone, periprostatic vein, periprostatic lymph nodes, benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH), atrophy, necrosis, calcification, hemorrhage, and prostatitis. An understanding of the prostate zonal anatomy is helpful in distinguishing the anatomic entities from prostate cancer. The anterio

SUBMITTER: Kitzing YX 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5496681 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jan-Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature