The significance of isoechoic prostatic carcinoma

The Journal of Urology
W J Ellis, M K Brawer

Abstract

The diagnosis of prostatic carcinoma is most commonly made today by transrectal ultrasound guided needle biopsy. Often hypoechoic and peripheral zone lesions are the only areas sampled. Recently, we showed that this approach missed a quarter of the cancers that would be detected by a systematic biopsy technique. We term these missed cancers isoechoic carcinomas. We reviewed 1,549 systematic sextant prostate needle biopsies, of which 417 cancers were detected and subdivided into hypoechoic cancers (cancers detected on biopsy of a hypoechoic sector and isoechoic cancers (cancers found only in normal [isoechoic] peripheral zone). We noted in men with only isoechoic cancers that fewer biopsy cores per prostate revealed cancer (mean 1.6 versus 3.0, p < 0.0001) and that these men had lower serum prostate specific antigen levels (mean 14.4 versus 43.7, p < 0.001). The Gleason scores for the isoechoic and hypoechoic cancers were indistinguishable. The pathological staging of hypoechoic and isoechoic cancers was also similar. This study suggests that while isoechoic cancers are generally smaller than hypoechoic cancers, they do not represent low grade clinically insignificant carcinomas. A systematic approach to performing prostate biop...Continue Reading

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