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PSA to 5 and obstructive urinary symptoms.

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So we have our axial T2, our ADC map windowed

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at 1400xss1400, a high B-value diffusion image.

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This is an interpolated B equal

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1600 image and a coronal T2.

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I don't have post-contrast images in this case.

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We start in the peripheral zone, and again, you notice

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the ADC map and the high B-value image are a bit ugly.

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So you know it's going to be a

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bit of a difficult case to read.

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So the peripheral zone is very heterogeneous.

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There are areas of bright signal, there's

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poorly defined, streaky areas of low signal.

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There's also some more focal mass-like areas of low signal.

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So we'll start here.

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We have a well-defined area of decreased T2

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signal in the left lateral peripheral zone.

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It has corresponding diffusion restriction.

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This is a black hole on the ADC map.

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The ADC value, I think, was around 600,

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but you can check the text to confirm.

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It's focally bright on the high B-value.

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It measures less than 1.5 centimeters,

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and there's no evidence

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that this is going outside of the capsule.

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So, this is PIRADS 4, based on

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the diffusion images and size.

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It also gets a PIRADS score of 4 for T2,

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but the diffusion score outweighs that.

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Um, and this was biopsied.

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I can't remember from just 30 seconds

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ago, this was a Gleason 3 plus 4 disease.

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Elsewhere in the peripheral zone, as we

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continue to scroll, we come to another

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area of well-defined low T2 signal, right?

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It looks like you can almost

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pluck it right off of the picture.

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There is a corresponding area of diffusion restriction.

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Again, it's a black hole.

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It's kind of hard to see, but it looks like someone's

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taken a bite out of the, uh, peripheral zone, and

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there's not a lot of distortion, so I think it's

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reasonable to say this is a real, uh, lesion.

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The ADC was well below 1,000, as the text will tell you.

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It is focally bright on the high B-value

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image, so again, it measures less than 1.5 centimeters,

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so its diffusion characteristics

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give it a PI-RAD score of 4, its T2

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characteristics give it a PI-RAD score of 4.

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The diffusion characteristics outweigh that.

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You get the total PI-RADS score of 4.

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Um, it does kind of have a broad bulge against the capsule,

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but there's no evidence there's macroscopic abnormal tissue

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on the other side of the capsule.

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This was biopsied and also, I believe,

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was a Gleason 3 plus 4 neoplasm.

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There's really no other area in this prostate peripheral

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zone that looks like there's focal diffusion restriction.

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The gland looks nice here, looks nice here.

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Going all the way around.

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When we look at the transition zone, it

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has this normal heterogeneous nodular

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appearance with high signal and low signal.

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Here's a nice example of some thickened anterior stroma.

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It has that typical appearance.

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The central zone is, let's keep the

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coronal up, let's see if we can find that.

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Central zone is this tissue right here.

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It looks normal.

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There's a big utricle cyst in the central zone.

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Uh, so this had two fairly typical PI-RADS for peripheral

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zone lesions, which both biopsy to be significant neoplasm.

Report

Case Discussion

Case Report

Faculty

Daniel Cornfeld, MD

Chief Radiologist

Mātai

Stephen J Pomeranz, MD

Chief Medical Officer, ProScan Imaging. Founder, MRI Online

ProScan Imaging

Tags

Prostate/seminal vesicles

MRI

Genitourinary (GU)

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