One in six men will develop prostate cancer during his life time.
Prostate cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death in American men, behind only lung cancer. Unfortunately, even though this disease is so common, clinical screening methods such as prostate specific antigen test and transrectal ultrasound guided prostate biopsy lack sensitivity and specificity in diagnosing prostate cancer. In recent years, multiparametric prostate MRI has emerged as a very important tool in the diagnosis of prostate carcinoma with a high accuracy. However, diagnostic difficulty is often encountered even with an experienced abdominal radiologist. That is mainly because many normal and abnormal entities can mimic prostate carcinoma at muiltiparametric MRI. Therefore, the purpose of this pictorial essay is to discuss the usefulness of multiparametric prostate MRI in the diagnosis of prostate carcinoma, emphasizing the key MRI features which help to make a distinction of prostate carcinoma from its mimics.
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Yu J, Fulcher AS, Turner MA, Cockrell CH, Cote EP, Wallace TJ. Are you the author?
VCU Health System Professor Radiology 1250 E Marshall St PO Box 980615 UNITED STATES Richmond VA 23298 8/04-628-1132 804-628-0068 VCU Health System.
Reference: Br J Radiol. 2014 Mar 20:20130659.
doi: 10.1259/bjr.20130659
PubMed Abstract
PMID: 24646125
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