Table 3.

Comparison of biopsy characteristics and outcomes of MRTB and rTPB.

Variables	MRTB	rTPB	p-Value
Total no. of cores	239	511
No. of positive cores	28	33
No. of Gleason 7 cores	14	8
Percentage of cancer detection per core (%)	11.7	6.5	0.02
Percentage of Gleason 7 detection per core (%)	5.9	1.6	<0.01
Per patient analysis (mean ± SD)
No. of biopsy cores	13.3 ± 5.8	26.9 ± 8.2	<0.05
Biopsy intensity (cores/mL)		0.87 ± 0.12
No. of positive cores	1.56 ± 2.79	1.74 ± 2.23	0.83
Max percentage core (%)	25.6 ± 29.6	9.40 ± 9.15	0.03

MRTB, magnetic resonance imaging-targeted prostate biopsy; rTPB, robotic transperineal template prostate biopsy.