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Use of MRI-ultrasound Fusion to Achieve Targeted Prostate Biopsy
Published on: April 9, 2019
Is ipsilateral systematic biopsy combined with targeted biopsy the optimal substitute for bilateral systematic biopsy
Qiyou Wu1, Xiang Tu1, Jinjiang Jiang1
1Department of Urology, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China.
Background:
The current standard prostate biopsy method, which combine systematic biopsy (SB) with targeted biopsy (TB), has shortcomings such as overdiagnosis and overtreatment. To evaluate the effectiveness of ipsilateral systematic biopsy (ips-SB) combined with targeted biopsy (ips-SB+TB) and contralateral SB (con-SB) combined with TB (con-SB+TB) as potential alternatives to SB+TB.
Methods:
A comprehensive literature search was conducted in Cochrane, Embase, Ovid, and PubMed databases until September 2024. 2,732 references were identified, and 11 records were included.
Main Findings:
The study included a total of 5,249 patients and revealed that ips-SB+TB detected slightly less PCa than SB+TB with a relative risk (RR) of 0.95 (95% CI 0.91, 1.00), P = 0.05. In terms of csPCa detection, ips-SB+TB showed a comparable detection rate with SB+TB (RR 0.98 [95% CI 0.94, 1.01], P = 0.60). There was a statistically significant difference in csPCa detection between con-SB+TB and SB+TB (RR 0.92 [95% CI 0.86, 0.99], P = 0.02). The detection rates of clinically insignificant PCa (ciPCa) were comparable between con-SB+TB vs. SB+TB (con-SB+TB vs. SB+TB: RR 0.90 [95% CI 0.79, 1.04], P = 0.15). However, fewer ciPCa cases were detected in ips-SB+TB compared to SB+TB (RR 0.86 [95% CI 0.75, 0.99], P = 0.04).
Conclusions:
In this review, our analysis highlights ips-SB+TB has the comparable detection efficiency of PCa and csPCa compared to SB+TB, and its potential to be the substitute of the SB+TB with less cores and less detection of ciPCa.
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