According to a study published in the American Journal of Roentgenology (AJR), upgrade and downgrade rates from targeted biopsy to radical prostatectomy were not significantly different between patients whose MRI examinations were clinically interpreted using PI-RADS Version v2.0 or v2.1.
, upgrade and downgrade rates from targeted biopsy to radical prostatectomy were not significantly different between patients whose MRI examinations were clinically interpreted using PI-RADS Version v2.0 or v2.1.
"Implementation of the most recent PI-RADS update did not improve the incongruence in prostate cancer grade assessment between targeted and surgery," wrote corresponding author Baris Turkbey, MD, from the Molecular Imaging Branch of the National Cancer Institute at National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, MD.study entailed a retrospective post-hoc analysis of patients who underwent 3-T prostate MRI at a single institution from May 2015 to March 2023 during prospective clinical trials.
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