Prostate Cancer Units: How and Why
1 PC is a very complex disease, involving diagnostic and therapeutic multidisciplinary decisions 2 Optimal and well-balanced information for PC cases requires a shift from a monodisciplinary to a synergic…
Multidisciplinary Team in Cancer Management
Fig. 1.1 An example of multidisciplinary team approach References 1. Gouveia J, Voleman MP, Haward R et al (2008) Improving cancer control in the European Union: conclusions from the Lisbon…
The Dilemma of Early Diagnosis for a Clinically Relevant Prostate Cancer: The Role of Urologist
(phi) between patients with or without PCa in the tPSA range between 2.0 and 10 ng/ml. In an univariate accuracy analysis, %[−2]proPSA (AUC: 75.7 %) and phi (AUC: 75.6 %) were the most…
Liver Lesions
Fig. 1 a–c Dose reduction using iterative reconstruction techniques at multidetector computed tomography (MDCT). a Normal-dose MDCT in the venous phase (120 kVp, ref. mAs 230) reconstructed with standard filtered…
Radiology of the Abdomen and Pelvis: Imaging of the Nontraumatic and Traumatic Acute Abdomen
Fig. 1 A 30-year-old patient, 22 weeks pregnant, with right lower quadrant pain, vomiting, and elevated white blood cell count due to appendicitis, as demonstrated on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)….
Urography in Children
Fig. 1 a, b T2-weighted (a) and postcontrast T1-weighted (b) 3D magnetic resonance urograms (MRU) show the anatomy and morphology of hydronephrotic and poorly functioning systems Fig. 2 a–d High-resolution…
for the Spread of Disease in the Abdomen and Pelvis
Fig. 1 Transaxial computed tomography (CT) image demonstrates the gastrohepatic ligament (GHL), seen as a fatty plane interposed between the lesser curvature of the stomach and the lobe of the…
Approach to Imaging the Acute Abdomen in Pediatrics
Fig. 1 a–c Teenage girl who presented with right lower quadrant pain. a, b Sagittal ultrasound (US) views of right lower quadrant show markedly enlarged right ovary with peripheral follicles…
Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Prostate Cancer Detection
Fig. 1 a, b a Normal prostate of a 30-year-old man. The transition zone (TZ) is still highly localized around the urethra. It is surrounded by the central zone (CZ)…
Diseases of the Uterus
Fig. 1 Normal magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the uterine anatomy on sagittal 3D T2-weighted multiplanar reconstruction (MPR) of the uterus and cervix demonstrates normal zonal anatomy. There are three…
