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Table 2 Variance in preoperative clinicopathological parameters between patients with and without seminal vesicle involvement (SVI)

From: Prediction of pathological and oncological outcomes based on extended prostate biopsy results in patients with prostate cancer receiving radical prostatectomy: a single institution study

 

SVI present

(n = 8)

SVI absent

(n = 116)

Univariate

Multivariate

P value

P value

Adjusted odds ratio (95% CI)

Mean age [years]

63.6 ± 3.9

63.9 ± 5.1

0.725

  

PSA [ng/ml]

13.0 ± 8.1

8.7 ± 7.2

0.105

  

Gleason score at biopsy

8.1 ± 1.1

7.0 ± 1.0

0.005

  

cT stage (n)

  

0.153

  

T1c

5 (62.5%)

94 (81.0%)

   

T2

3 (37.5%)

15 (12.9%)

   

T3a

0 (0%)

7 (6.0%)

   

%positive cores

31.0 ± 21.3

21.3 ±16.4

0.242

  

TZ biopsy positive (n)

7 (87.5%)

35 (30.2%)

0.002

0.023

12.99 (1.490-111.1)

Number of apex-positive (2–4/0–1) (n)

3/5

26/90

0.278

  

Number of middle-positive (2–4/0–1) (n)

6/2

28/88

0.005

0.025

7.299 (1.312-40.00)

Number of base-positive (2–4/0–1) (n)

4/4

23/93

0.067

  
  1. PSA, prostate-specific antigen; TZ, transition zone; apex, prostatic apex biopsy; middle, prostatic middle biopsy; base, prostatic base biopsy.