Canadian Medical Association Journal | 2019

Magnetic resonance imaging diagnosis of prostate cancer: promise and caution

 
 

Abstract


KEY POINTS\nAmong solid-organ tumours, prostate cancer is alone in being diagnosed via a nontargeted biopsy approach. Systematic transrectal ultrasonography-guided biopsy has been the standard of care to detect clinically important prostate cancer since 1989.[1][1] Yet modern image acquisition and

Volume 191
Pages E1177 - E1178
DOI 10.1503/cmaj.190568
Language English
Journal Canadian Medical Association Journal

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