Prostate MRI: staging and decision-making.

Multi-parametric prostate MRI (mpMRI) plays a critical role in the diagnosis, staging, and evaluation of treatment response in patients with prostate cancer. Radiologists, through an accurate and standardized interpretation of mpMRI, can clinically stage prostate cancer and help to risk stratify patients who may benefit from more invasive treatment or exclude patients who may be harmed by overtreatment. The purpose of this article is to describe key findings to accurately stage prostate cancer with mpMRI and to describe the contexts in which mpMRI is best applied.

Abdominal radiology (New York). 2020 Feb 11 [Epub ahead of print]

Michael J Magnetta, Roberta Catania, Rossano Girometti, Antonio C Westphalen, Amir A Borhani, Alessandro Furlan

Division of Abdominal Radiology, Department of Radiology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA., Institute of Radiology, Department of Medicine, University of Udine, University Hospital, S. Maria della Misericordia, p.le S. Maria della Misericordia n. 15, 33100, Udine, UD, Italy., Departments of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, and Urology, Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA., Division of Abdominal Radiology, Department of Radiology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA. .