Imaging Pearls ❯ GU Misc ❯ Prostate
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- “ Abdominal contrast-enhanced CT for initial staging of prostate cancer shows a considerable prevalence of incidental vascular events and synchronous cancers, with kidney cancers being the most common. Notably, 71.5% of these malignancies were at early stage. Our results show an incremental value of CT in prostate cancer staging, with an emphasis on focused evaluation of the kidneys.”
Incidental Findings at Initial Imaging Workup of Patients with Prostate Cancer: Clinical Signiificance
Elmi A et al.
AJR 2012; 199:1305-1311 - “ Overall 292 of the 355 patients (82.3%) had one or more incidental findings, as summarized in Tables 1 and 2. Colonic diverticulitis was the most common finding (42.5%), followed by renal (41.6%) and liver (25.6%) cysts. All these prevalent findings were classified as having low importance except for the two complex cysts that underwent MRI for further characterization.”
Incidental Findings at Initial Imaging Workup of Patients with Prostate Cancer: Clinical Signiificance
Elmi A et al.
AJR 2012; 199:1305-1311 - “ Seventy five potentially significant findings were noted in 73 patients (20.6%), which were mostly indeterminate masses in the kidneys, adrenal glands, pancreas, colon, liver and bladder. In addition lymphadenopathy at the sites uncoomon for prostate cancer metastases was noted in 18 cases, of which five showed non-prostate cancer malignant infiltration.”
Incidental Findings at Initial Imaging Workup of Patients with Prostate Cancer: Clinical Signiificance
Elmi A et al.
AJR 2012; 199:1305-1311 - “ Histopathologic examination was performed in 33 patients and confirmed malignancy in 21 cases (renal cell carcinoma (n=7), lymphoma (n=4), pancreatic cancer (n=3),colorectal(n=3), transitional cell carcinoma of the bladder (n=2), gastric cancer (n=1), hepatocellular carcinoma (n=1).”
Incidental Findings at Initial Imaging Workup of Patients with Prostate Cancer: Clinical Signiificance
Elmi A et al.
AJR 2012; 199:1305-1311 - “One potential advantage of the incidental diagnosis of tumors is identifying disease in the preclinical stage when treatment could be reasonably more effective leading to better survival.Notably, 85.7% of our patients were at early stages at the time of diagnosis (N0M0 cancers) and only three patients (14.3%) had evidence of distant metastases of the second cancer.”
Incidental Findings at Initial Imaging Workup of Patients with Prostate Cancer: Clinical Signiificance
Elmi A et al.
AJR 2012; 199:1305-1311