Opportunistic Prostate Cancer Screening with Biparametric Magnetic Resonance Imaging (VISIONING).

Background: This study investigates the use of biparametric magnetic resonance imaging (bpMRI) as primary opportunistic screening for prostate cancer (PCa) without using a prostate-specific antigen (PSA) cut-off.

Objective: The primary endpoint was to assess the efforts and effectiveness of identifying 20 participants with clinically significant prostate cancer (csPCa) using bpMRI.

Design, Setting, And Participants: Biopsy-naïve men aged over 45 yr were included.

Prospective Multicenter Validation of the Stockholm3 Test in a Central European Cohort.

Background: It has been shown that the Stockholm3 test decreases overdetection of prostate cancer (PCa) while retaining the ability to detect clinically significant PCa (csPCa) in a Swedish population. However, the test includes potentially population-specific testing of single-nucleotide polymorphisms and has yet not been validated outside Scandinavia.

Objective: To assess the performance of the Stockholm3 test in discriminating csPCa in a Central European cohort undergoing prostate biopsy (PBx).

Structured reporting of prostate magnetic resonance imaging has the potential to improve interdisciplinary communication.

Background: Effective interdisciplinary communication of imaging findings is vital for patient care, as referring physicians depend on the contained information for the decision-making and subsequent treatment. Traditional radiology reports contain non-structured free text and potentially tangled information in narrative language, which can hamper the information transfer and diminish the clarity of the report. Therefore, this study investigates whether newly developed structured reports (SRs) of prostate magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) can improve interdisciplinary communication, as compared to non-structured reports (NSRs).

The patient's self-evaluation better predicts the degree of erectile dysfunction than the response to intracavernous alprostadil testing.

Objectives: A modern baseline assessment of erectile dysfunction (ED) should be individualized, reliable, noninvasive and cost-efficient. Appraisal based on the patient's self-evaluation may be the method of choice.

Methods: Using a self-report method, 63 consecutive ED patients were prospectively investigated.

Unenhanced helical computed tomography vs intravenous urography in patients with acute flank pain: accuracy and economic impact in a randomized prospective trial.

Unenhanced helical computed tomography (UHCT) has evolved into a well-accepted alternative to intravenous urography (IVU) in patients with acute flank pain and suspected ureterolithiasis. The purpose of our randomized prospective study was to analyse the diagnostic accuracy of UHCT vs IVU in the normal clinical setting with special interest on economic impact, applied radiation dose and time savings in patient management. A total of 122 consecutive patients with acute flank pain suggestive of urolithiasis were randomized for UHCT ( n=59) or IVU ( n=63).