Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Volume 28, Issue 7 , Pages 943-946 , September 2010

Guided e-MRI prostate biopsy can solve the discordance between Gleason score biopsy and radical prostatectomy pathology

  • Apostolos P. Labanaris

      Affiliations

    • Department of Urology, Martha Maria Medical Center, Academic Hospital of Erlangen University, 90491 Nurnberg, Germany
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +49 911 959 1351; fax: +49 911 959 1352.
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  • Vahudin Zugor

      Affiliations

    • Department of Urology, St. Antonius Hospital, 48599 Gronau, Germany
    • ,
  • Robert Smiszek

      Affiliations

    • Department of Urology, Martha Maria Medical Center, Academic Hospital of Erlangen University, 90491 Nurnberg, Germany
    • ,
  • Reinhold Nützel

      Affiliations

    • Department of Urology, Martha Maria Medical Center, Academic Hospital of Erlangen University, 90491 Nurnberg, Germany
    • ,
  • Reinhard Kühn

      Affiliations

    • Department of Urology, Martha Maria Medical Center, Academic Hospital of Erlangen University, 90491 Nurnberg, Germany
    • ,
  • Karl Engelhard

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, Martha Maria Medical Center, Academic Hospital of Erlangen University, 90491 Nurnberg, Germany

Received 31 December 2009 ,Accepted 11 March 2010.

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PII: S0730-725X(10)00104-9

doi: 10.1016/j.mri.2010.03.041

Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Volume 28, Issue 7 , Pages 943-946 , September 2010

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