Open AccessRuling out clinically significant prostate cancer with negative multi-parametric MRI
Author(s) -
Julie Y. An,
Abhinav Sidana,
Sarah A. Holzman,
Joseph A. Baiocco,
Sherif Mehralivand,
Peter L. Choyke,
Bradford J. Wood,
Barış Türkbey,
Peter A. Pinto
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
international urology and nephrology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.619
H-Index - 52
eISSN - 1573-2584
pISSN - 0301-1623
DOI - 10.1007/s11255-017-1715-7
Subject(s) - medicine , prostate cancer , biopsy , cohort , prostate , cancer , prostate biopsy , radiology , magnetic resonance imaging , prostatectomy , oncology
To evaluate the negative predictive value (NPV) of a negative prostate multi-parametric magnetic resonance imaging (mpMRI) in ruling out clinically significant prostate upon 12-core systematic biopsy.