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- Title
Prognostic performance of magnetic resonance imaging-guided biopsy in defining prostate cancer anterior lesions.
- Authors
Porreca, Angelo; Bianchi, Federico Mineo; Salvaggio, Antonio; D'Agostino, Daniele; Del Rosso, Alessandro; Romagnoli, Daniele; Corsi, Paolo; Colicchia, Michele; Barbaresi, Umberto; Bianchi, Lorenzo; Giampaoli, Marco; Schiavina, Riccardo; Palmer, Katie; Del Giudice, Francesco; Maggi, Martina; Ferro, Matteo; Sciarra, Alessandro; De Berardinis, Ettore; Busetto, Gian Maria
- Abstract
Purpose: Diagnosis of anterior prostate cancer (PCa) can be quite challenging, often leading to delay in treatment. mpMRI-guided biopsy (GB) has been introduced aiming to increase the number of diagnoses of clinically significant PCa with fewer cores. The aim of our study is to compare pathological findings of prostate biopsy, In-bore or Fusion technique, with histopathological evaluation of radical prostatectomy. Methods: We prospectively collected data from 90 consecutive patients who underwent either In-bore or Fusion biopsy following the detection of an index suspicious lesion at mpMRI in the anterior part of the prostatic gland. Bioptical pathological findings were compared with pathological findings reported after robot-assisted radical prostatectomy. Results: Patients who underwent In-bore GB had a higher rate of previous negative prostate biopsies (19% vs 44%, p = 0.02). Median number of bioptic cores taken (13 vs 2) and number of positive cores (3 vs 2) were significantly superior in the Fusion group compared to the In-bore group (p < 0.001 and p = 0.002, respectively), whilst clinical International Society of Urological Pathology (ISUP) grade was homogeneous within groups. The concordance between anterior lesions detected at biopsy and those reported in the histopathological finding of radical prostatectomy was very high, without statistically significant difference between groups. Conclusion: Both Fusion and In-bore GB are accurate in detecting anterior PCa, with enhanced precision detecting clinically significant tumours, as evidenced by pathologic examinations which confirmed the presence of index anterior PCa in > 50% of patients overall. Additional sextant biopsy is still required, especially among biopsy-näive patients, to avoid missing clinically significant PCa.
- Subjects
PROSTATE biopsy; PROSTATE cancer; MAGNETIC resonance; RADICAL prostatectomy; HISTOPATHOLOGY; DIAGNOSIS
- Publication
World Journal of Urology, 2021, Vol 39, Issue 5, p1473
- ISSN
0724-4983
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s00345-020-03335-4