Very Low Prostate PET/CT PSMA Uptake May Be Misleading in Staging Radical Prostatectomy Candidates.
Barak RosenzweigRennen HaramatyTima DavidsonAlon LazarovichAsaf ShveroMiki HaiflerJonathan GalShay GolanSagi ShpitzerAzik HoffmanOmri NativYuval FreifeldRani ZreikZohar A DotanPublished in: Journal of personalized medicine (2022)
Disease aggressiveness generally correlated with an intense PSMA uptake on the preoperative PSMA PET/CT, but a subpopulation of patients with clinically significant cancer and aggressive characteristics showed a deceptively weak PSMA uptake. These data raise a concern about the unqualified application of PSMA PET/CT for staging RP candidates.