The Role of Digital Rectal Examination Prostate Volume Category in the Early Detection of Prostate Cancer: Its Correlation with the Magnetic Resonance Imaging Prostate Volume.

PVC was unconclusive in 17% of DREs. MRI-PV overestimated the TRUS-PV in median and large prostates. The predictive models based on MRI-PV and DRE-PVC showed similar efficacy to predict csPCa. PVC assessed with DRE is helpful to predict the csPCa risk before MRI.