Flow Chart Of The Mri Directed Pathway For Patients With Suspicion Of

Flow Chart Of The Mri Directed Pathway For Patients With Suspicion Of Methods prospective single center study that between december 2017 and august 2018 included 129 consecutive patients with suspicion of prostate cancer into a pi rads based mri directed diagnostic. The referral population is 187.000. all referrals to our hospital for first time suspicion of prostate cancer were assessed by an urologist who initiated the pathway. after inclusion into the prostate cancer referral pathway, all patients had mri prior to biopsy. a flow chart summarizing the mri directed pathway is shown in fig. 1. the data.

Flow Chart Of The Mri Directed Pathway For Patients With Suspicion Of Flow chart of the mri directed pathway for patients with suspicion of prostate cancer referred to our hospital. methods prospective single center study that between december 2017 and august. Purpose to assess the safety and performance of a mri directed diagnostic pathway for patients with first time suspicion of prostate cancer in a non university hospital. methods between may 2017 and december 2018 all biopsy naive patients examined in our hospital followed a mri directed diagnostic work up algorithm based on pi rads score. in short, pi rads 1–2 was generally not biopsied and. Mri results can be used in two distinct ways. the first is the combined biopsy pathway, in which patients with negative mri findings undergo systematic biopsy and those with positive mri findings undergo both systematic and mri directed biopsy, thus maximizing the diagnostic yield of clinically significant cancers [1, 4, 5]. the second is the. Methods prospective single center study that between december 2017 and august 2018 included 129 consecutive patients with suspicion of prostate cancer into a pi rads based mri directed diagnostic.