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50-year-old with a PSA of four, a benign gland

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on exam and no obstructive urinary symptoms.

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So we've brought up our axial T2, our ADC map windowed

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at 1400x1400, a synthetically created B equal 1600 image,

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and the arterial phase of the dynamic post-contrast series.

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And what you'll notice, starting looking in the

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peripheral zone, is that most of the

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peripheral zone is uniformly high T2 signal.

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There are some linear areas of low signal, which is normal.

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And then here in the anterior

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peripheral zone, there's about a 1.

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8 centimeter, uh, very well-defined T2 dark nodule.

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It's an absolute black hole on the ADC map.

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The ADC values are very low; they

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measure in the 600s, here 676.

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This region is high signal on the high B

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value image, and it does focally enhance.

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Uh, in the arterial phase, uh, following contrast.

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Uh, so this is a PI-RADS 5 lesion, and it's located

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in the anterior gland, so this wouldn't be palpable.

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The posterior gland is palpated, and this

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also likely would have been missed if the

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person had had a systematic trans-rectal ultrasound biopsy.

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Um, the remainder of the peripheral zone looks okay.

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There's no other areas of diffusion restriction.

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The transition zone is mildly enlarged.

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This is kind of a normal appearance

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of prostatic hypertrophy.

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You'll notice here and here are as normal, uh, central zone.

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This is what it looks like.

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diffusion restriction in the central zone.

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That's normal.

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Uh, there's no extracapsular extension.

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Seminal vesicles look fine.

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Let's find those for you.

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There's no abnormal soft tissue or enhancement

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along the course of the neurovascular bundles,

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kind of expected given the anterior tumor.

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So this is a PI-RADS 5.

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Uh, and when it was biopsied, uh, we got predominantly, uh,

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4 plus 3 and 4 plus 4, so very high-grade disease, which

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is concordant with the very low ADC values in the 600s.

Report

Case Discussion

Case Report

Faculty

Daniel Cornfeld, MD

Chief Radiologist

Mātai

Stephen Currin, MD

Radiologist

IMED

Evan Allgood, MD

Abdominal Radiologist

Beverly Radiology Medical Group

Tags

Prostate/seminal vesicles

MRI

Genitourinary (GU)

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