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Table 5 Agreement in the Gleason scores for the targeted and systematic biopsies

From: A prospective study of magnetic resonance imaging and ultrasonography (MRI/US)-fusion targeted biopsy and concurrent systematic transperineal biopsy with the average of 18-cores to detect clinically significant prostate cancer

Histology of TB

Histology of SB

No cancer

3 + 3

3 + 4

4 + 3

4 + 4

≥9

No cancer

61

8

7

4

7

2

3 + 3

4

7

2

2

5

0

3 + 4

1

0

6

1

5

0

4 + 3

2

0

0

5

2

0

4 + 4

4

1

0

1

23

5

≥9

1

0

0

0

2

9

  1. TB targeted biopsy, SB Systematic biopsy