Guided e-MRI prostate biopsy can solve the discordance between Gleason score biopsy and radical prostatectomy pathology

Magn Reson Imaging. 2010 Sept;28(7):943-946, Apostolos P. Labanaris, Vahudin Zugor, Robert Smiszek, Reinhold Nützel, Reinhard Kühn, Karl Engelhard

IntroductionThe aim of this study is to examine if guided prostate biopsies based on abnormalities detected by conventional and functional endorectal magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) yield a more reliable representation of the radical prostatectomy pathology and to identify probable preoperative clinical variables that stratified patients likely to harbor significant upgrading.Patients and MethodsFrom April 2004 to April 2009, a review of N=70 patients records diagnosed with prostate cancer by a...

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