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The role of gadolinium in magnetic resonance imaging for early prostate cancer diagnosis: A diagnostic accuracy study.

Ilinca CosmaCornelia Tennstedt-SchenkSven WinzlerMarios Nikos PsychogiosAlexander PfeilUlf TeichgraeberAnsgar MalichIsmini E Papageorgiou
Published in: PloS one (2019)
DCE showed no significant added diagnostic value and lower specificity for the prediction of CSPca compared to the non-enhanced sequences. Our results support that gadolinium might be omitted without mitigating the diagnostic accuracy of the mpMRI for prostate cancer.
Keyphrases
  • prostate cancer
  • contrast enhanced
  • magnetic resonance imaging
  • radical prostatectomy
  • computed tomography
  • magnetic resonance
  • diffusion weighted imaging
  • structural basis