An optimized prostate biopsy strategy in patients with a unilateral lesion on prostate magnetic resonance imaging avoids unnecessary biopsies.
Auke JagerLuigi A M J G van RielArnoud W PostemaTheo M de ReijkeTim M van der SluisJorg R OddensPublished in: Therapeutic advances in urology (2022)
This study shows that performing TBx with ipsilateral SBx and omitting contralateral SBx is the optimal biopsy strategy in patients with a unilateral MRI lesion. With this strategy, a very limited amount of csPCa is missed and iPCa detection is reduced.