Accuracy of standard clinical 3T prostate MRI for pelvic lymph node staging: Comparison to 68 Ga-PSMA PET-CT

Abstract The aim was to assess the performance of prostate 3T MRI for pelvic lymph node (LN) staging in prostate cancer (PCa), in comparison to 68Gallium-prostate specific membrane antigen PET-CT (68Ga-PSMA PET-CT) as reference standard for LN detection. 130 patients with PCa underwent non-contrast-...

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Main Authors: Sebastian Meißner, Jan-Carlo Janssen, Vikas Prasad, Gerd Diederichs, Bernd Hamm, Winfried Brenner, Marcus R. Makowski
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2019-07-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-46386-3