Temporal changes in MRI appearance of the prostate after focal ablation.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

The purpose of our study was to retrospectively evaluate and categorize temporal changes in MRI appearances of the prostate in patients who underwent focal therapy with MRI follow-up.

Methods

The Institutional Review Board approved this retrospective study and waived the requirement for informed consent. Thirty-seven patients (median age 61; 48-70 years) with low-to-intermediate-risk, clinically organ-confined prostate cancer underwent focal ablation therapy from 2009 to 2014. Two radiologists reviewed post-treatment MRIs (n = 76) and categorized imaging features blinded to the time interval between the focal therapy and the follow-up MRI. Inter-reader agreement was assessed (kappa) and generalized linear regression was used to examine associations between an imaging

SUBMITTER: Hotker AM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6894419 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature