Discrimination between clinical significant and insignificant prostate cancer with apparent diffusion coefficient – a systematic review and meta analysis

Abstract Background Prostate MRI has become a corner stone in diagnosis of prostate cancer (PC). Diffusion weighted imaging and the apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) can be used to reflect tumor microstructure. The present analysis sought to compare ADC values of clinically insignificant with cli...

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Main Authors: Hans-Jonas Meyer, Andreas Wienke, Alexey Surov
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2020-05-01
Series:BMC Cancer
Subjects:
DWI
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12885-020-06942-x