A critical analysis of the prostate magnetic resonance imaging lesion
diameter threshold for advanced pathology features
Abstract
Purpose: To investigate the relationship between lesion size determined
using mpMRI and histopathological findings of specimens obtained after
mpMRI fusion biopsy and radical prostatectomy. Material and Methods: We
retrospectively analyzed 590 patients with PCa who underwent an MRI
fusion biopsy between 2017-2019. We measured the diameter of suspicious
tumor lesions on diffusion-weighted mpMRI and stratified the cohort into
two groups. Group A included patients with a suspicious tumor lesion
equal and smaller than 10 mm and Group B included those with a
suspicious tumor lesion larger than 10 mm. RP was performed in 53
patients. The patients in Groups A and B were compared according to
their pathological findings obtained with fusion biopsy and RP. Results:
After applying the inclusion and exclusion criteria, Group A consisted
of 144 patients and Group B comprised 146. In Group B, PI-RADS score
determined in mpMRI was higher than Group A, and there was a
statistically significant difference between the two groups in terms of
clinical T-stage. The PCa detection rate and the number of positive
cores were statistically significantly higher in Group B than in Group
A. In addition, there was a statistically significant difference between
the two groups in relation to the biopsy, the ISUP grades and the
presence of clinically significant PCa. In Group B, pathological T-stage
and extraprostatic extension (EPE) and surgical margin (SM) positivity
were found to be higher among the patients who underwent RP. In the
multivariate analysis, the mpMRI lesion size being >10 mm
was found to be an independent predictive factor for SM and EPE
positivity. Conclusion: The radiologists and clinicians should be awared
of the possibility of presence of features that may affect local
staging, such as EPE positivity, in the presence of lesions larger than
10 mm in which prostate cancer is detected.