title: [The contribution of imaging before, during, and after prostatectomy].
abstract: Before prostatectomy, imaging has a dual role: detecting cancer and staging it. During prostatectomy, imaging can guide the surgeon by localizing a probable zone of prostate extension that therefore contraindicates vessel and nerve preservation. After la prostatectomy, imaging can be useful to differentiate local recurrence and distant metastasis. New techniques such as dynamic MRI and MRI spectroscopy are very promising.
authors.affiliation: Département de radiologie, hôpital Cochin, 27, rue du Faubourg Saint-Jacques, 75014 Paris, France. patrickyounes@noos.fr
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Younes
mesh_terms: D003952:Diagnostic Imaging; D006801:Humans; D008207:Lymphatic Metastasis; D008297:Male; D009367:Neoplasm Staging; D011182:Postoperative Care; D011300:Preoperative Care; D011467:Prostate / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D011468:Prostatectomy; D011471:Prostatic Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery*