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Table 1 Characteristics of patients and target lesions

From: Usefulness of grayscale values of hypoechoic lesions matched with target lesions observed on magnetic resonance imaging for the prediction of clinically significant prostate cancer

 

Prostate cancer

No (n = 159)

Yes (n = 261)

P value

Age (years)

66.7 ± 8.5

70.4 ± 7.8

 < 0.001

PSA (ng/mL)

5.83 (4.60–8.09)

7.97 (5.37–14.22)

0.001

Prostate volume (cm3)

41.2 ± 15.2

34.0 ± 15.1

 < 0.001

PSAD (ng/mL/cm3)

0.15 (0.11–0.23)

0.27 (0.17–0.47)

0.002

Previous prostate biopsy history

43 (27.0)

41 (15.7)

0.007

Positive systematic biopsy

35 (22.0)

233 (89.3)

 < 0.001

Gleason grade group

 < 0.001

 1

17 (48.6)

59 (25.3)

 

 ≥ 2

18 (51.4)

174 (74.7)

 

No. of positive systematic biopsy cores

0.6 ± 1.4

4.6 ± 3.4

 < 0.001

Target-lesion location

0.642

 Peripheral zone

37 (23.3)

66 (25.3)

 

 Transitional zone

122 (76.7)

195 (74.7)

 

Target-lesion size (cm)

1.01 ± 0.80

1.59 ± 1.09

 < 0.001

PI-RADS score

 < 0.001

 3

76 (63.9)

43 (36.1)

 

 4

75 (37.3)

126 (62.7)

 

 5

8 (8.0)

92 (92.0)

 

Grayscale value

70.3 (45.3–98.4)

65.9 (47.7–89.9)

0.359

  1. Data are expressed as number (%) and median (interquartile range)
  2. PI-RADS prostate imaging-reporting and data system, PSA prostate-specific antigen, PSAD prostate-specific antigen density