THE UNIVERSAL
Wednesday June 17, 2015 4:48 PM
Gustavo Carrero, radiologist CDD de Las Mercedes, which already uses the software, explained that this is the standardization of the reporting of findings with prostate MRI. On the basis of a software “gets structural and functional information of the prostate, ie, dynamic information The breakthrough is in the definition of a whole agreed terminology between radiologists and urologists to achieve the same language interpreting. images obtained with resonance, “said Carrero.
According to the radiologist the CDD” one of the strengths of the study is that allows you to see small nodular lesions and guiding biopsies on lesions that are not normally seen, thereby increasing the accuracy of diagnosis and enables more effective and targeted treatments. “
The only invasion that will have the patient is taking the intravenous route for administering gadolinium contrast. The maximum duration of the resonance is 25 minutes, in which half of the body is outside the resonator.
In men prostate cancer is the leading cause of death in Venezuela. Between 2010 and 2013 some 5000 cases of prostate cancer between 2000 to 2250 deaths related to prostate cancer were recorded. Global figures show 900 000 cases per year and about 200 000 deaths from this cause.
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