Targeted Prostate Biopsies-What the Radiologist Needs to Know

Radiol Clin North Am. 2024 Jan;62(1):109-120. doi: 10.1016/j.rcl.2023.06.011. Epub 2023 Jul 27.

Abstract

The emergence of multiparametric MR imaging has enabled a more reliable targeted approach to diagnosis of prostate cancer. Targeted biopsies are central to the MR imaging-dependent pathway to prostate cancer diagnosis and potentially improve the detection of clinically significant prostate cancers. In a targeted biopsy, tissue samples are obtained from suspicious regions identified on a prebiopsy diagnostic MR imaging. This article describes and compares principles, advantages, and disadvantages of the different strategies available for targeting an MR imaging-visible suspicious lesion.

Keywords: Biopsy; Imaging-pathology; MR imaging; Prostate cancer; US.

Publication types

  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Humans
  • Image-Guided Biopsy / methods
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging / methods
  • Male
  • Prostate* / diagnostic imaging
  • Prostate* / pathology
  • Prostatic Neoplasms* / pathology
  • Radiologists