To evaluate utilities of multiparametric MRI and targeted biopsy to detect clinically significant prostate cancer in men with prostatomegaly.
We conducted a retrospective review of multiparametric MRI obtained for elevated PSA between 2017-2020. We selected patients with prostates ≥80g who had undergone biopsy. Clinically significant prostate cancer was defined as grade group ≥2. Predictive and logistic regression analyses quantified impacts of diagnostic components.
338 patients met inclusion criteria: 89 (26.3%) had clinically significant prostate cancer. On MRI, positive predictive value for clinically significant prostate cancer was 26.5% for PIRADS 4 and 73.5% for PIRADS 5; negative predictive value for MRI without suspicious lesions was 98.8%. Applying PSA density to MRI yielded a negative predictive value of 78.9% for PIRADS 4 lesions at PSA density 50% (12.2% vs 28.3%). MRI in-bore biopsies trended towards better accuracy versus MRI-transrectal ultrasound fusion biopsies (75% versus 52%). On logistic regression analyses, MRI improved predictive accuracy (area under the curve 0.91), and PIRADS score demonstrated the strongest association with clinically significant prostate cancer (odds ratio 6.42, p <0.001).
For large prostates, MRI is less predictive of clinically significant prostate cancer but effectively rules out malignancy. PSA density better informs biopsy decisions for PIRADS 4 and 5 lesions. There may be a pronounced role for targeted biopsy, specifically in-bore, in prostatomegaly.

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