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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Dec 19.
Published in final edited form as: Abdom Radiol (NY). 2018 Nov;43(11):3117–3124. doi: 10.1007/s00261-018-1598-9

Table 4.

Differences in mpMRI and pathology characteristic of TZ and PZ PCa in false negative and false positive index lesions.

Pathology characteristics FNa PZb (n=73) FN TZc (n=29) P value
Biopsy Gleason, 0.595
3 +3, 26 (35.6%) 13 (44.8%)
3+4, 30 (41.1%) 12 (41.4%)
4+3, 4 (5.5%) 2 (6.9%)
Others 13 (17.8%) 2 (6.9%)
Pathology tumor diameter (cm), median (IQRd) 1.40 (0.80–2.00) 1.60 (1.05–2.60) 0.176
Pathology prostate weight (gm), median (IQR) 49.5 (36.3–71.8) 41.9 (32.6–61) 0.222
Pathology Gleason score 0.298
3 +3, 19 (26%) 9 (31%)
3+4, 41 (56.2%) 15 (51.7%)
4+3, 7 (9.6%) 5 (17.2%)
Others, 6 (8.2%) 0 (0%)
Pathology Staging 0.488
2, 66 (90.4%) 25 (86.2%)
3a, 7 (9.6%) 4 (13.8%)
3b, 0 (0%) 0 (0%)
mpMRI characteristics FPe PZ (n=72) FP TZ (n=38) P value
Prostate volume (cm3), median (IQR) 37.0 (30.4–48.9) 49.8 (35.0–62.9) 0.021
MRIf tumor volume (cm3), median (IQR) 0.18 (0.07–0.40) 0.23 (0.09–0.38) 0.519
PI-RADSv2g category 0.033
2, 13 (18.1%) 15 (39.5%)
3, 34 (47.2%) 18 (47.4%)
4, 20 (27.8%) 4 (10.5%)
5, 5 (6.9%) 1 (2.6%)
a

False Negative,

b

Peripheral Zone,

c

Transition Zone,

d

Interquartile Range,

e

False Positive,

f

Magnetic Resonance Imaging,

g

Prostate Imaging – Reporting and Data System version 2