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Publication Details
AFRICAN RESEARCH NEXUS
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN RESEARCH
medicine
The accuracy of multiparametric MRI in men with negative biopsy and elevated PSA level-Can it rule out clinically significant prostate cancer?
Urologic Oncology: Seminars and Original Investigations, Volume 32, No. 1, Year 2014
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Purpose: To assess the performance of multiparametric magnetic resonance imaging (mp-MRI) in patients with previous negative transrectal ultrasound (TRUS) guided prostate biopsy. Materials and methods: Fifty-four patients with at least 1 previous negative TRUS prostate biopsy underwent mp-MRI in the form of T2-weighted, diffusion-weighted, and dynamic contrast-enhanced imaging. This was followed by transperineal template systematic prostate biopsies. Analysis was done based on 2 sectors per prostate, right and left (108 sectors out of 54 prostates). mp-MRI was scored using an ordinal scale 1 to 5 based on the suspicion of the presence of clinically significant disease. We used 6 different definitions for clinically significant disease and tested the performance of mp-MRI at each single definition. Results: Median age was 64 (range, 39-75), median PSA level was 10 (range, 2-23), and median number of biopsies was 45 (range, 21-137). Cancer of any volume and any grade was detected in 34 of 54 (63%) patients. mp-MRI accuracy at detection of clinically significant cancer using University College London (UCL) definition 2 (any Gleason score of 4 or maximum cancer core length of ≥4. mm or both) showed sensitivity of 76%, specificity of 42%, positive predictive value of 38%, and negative predictive value of 79%. For a different definition of significant tumor (UCL definition 1; dominant Gleason score 4 or maximum cancer core length ≥6. mm or both), the sensitivity was 90%, specificity 42%, positive predictive value 26%, and negative predictive value 95%. Conclusions: mp-MRI showed good performance at both detection and ruling out clinically significant disease, according to the definition used. mp-MRI can then be used as a triage test in the population with persistently elevated or rising PSA levels to select patients that can avoid unnecessary prostate biopsy. © 2014 Elsevier Inc.
Authors & Co-Authors
Abd-Alazeez, Mohamed
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Ahmed, Hashim Uddin
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Arya, Manit
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Charman, Susan C.
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Anastasiadis, E.
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Freeman, Alex A.
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Emberton, Mark E.
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Kirkham, Alex P.S.
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Statistics
Citations: 133
Authors: 8
Affiliations: 7
Identifiers
Doi:
10.1016/j.urolonc.2013.06.007
ISSN:
10781439
e-ISSN:
18732496
Research Areas
Cancer
Study Design
Cross Sectional Study
Participants Gender
Male