title: Inability of refined CT to assess local extent of prostatic cancer.
abstract: A refined procedure for CT was evaluated as a staging procedure in 19 patients with localized prostatic carcinoma. The CT images were compared to histopathologic whole-mount step sections of the surgical specimens. Fourteen of the patients had pathologic stage T3 (pT3) and 5 had stage pT2 giving a prevalence of extracapsular growth of 0.74. The CT images were read by 2 radiologists independently with a diagnostic accuracy of 0.37 for both observers. This is no better than in previous studies using a routine CT procedure. We conclude that CT is of little value in the staging protocol for the local extent of prostatic carcinoma before radical prostatectomy.
authors.affiliation: Department of Diagnostic Radiology, University of Bergen, Norway.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Rørvik
authors.forename: O J
authors.initials: OJ
authors.lastname: Halvorsen
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Espeland
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Haukaas
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009367:Neoplasm Staging; D011446:Prospective Studies; D011471:Prostatic Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology*; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed / Q000379:methods*