Correlation of Gleason Scores with Diffusion-Weighted Imaging Findings of Prostate Cancer
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- 15 December 2011
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Hindawi Limited in Advances in Urology
- Vol. 2012, 1-5
- https://doi.org/10.1155/2012/374805
Abstract
The purpose of our study was to compare the apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) derived from diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) of prostate cancer (PCa) patients with three classes of pathological Gleason scores (GS). Patients whose GS met these criteria (GS 3Keywords
Funding Information
- U.S. Department of Defense (W81XWH-11-1-0248)
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