Magnetic resonance imaging improves the prediction of tumor staging in localized prostate cancer.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

The aim of this study was to investigate 3 Tesla multiparametric magnetic resonance imaging (mpMRI)-based predictors for the pretherapeutic T staging of prostate cancer and their accuracy.

Methods

Consecutive patients with 3 Tesla mpMRI, positive systematic and MR-targeted biopsy, and subsequent radical prostatectomy (RPE) between 01/2016 and 12/2017 were included. MRI parameters such as measurable extraprostatic extension (EPE) (≥ 3 mm), length of (pseudo)capsular contact (LCC), invasion of neurovascular bundle (NVBI), and/or seminal vesicles lesion contact (SVC) or infiltration (SVI) were assessed and correlated to clinical and histopathological results.

Results

136 men were included. In 76 cases, a pT2 stage was determined, in 29 cases a pT3a, and in 31

SUBMITTER: Valentin B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8205913 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature