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We evaluated multiparametric MRI with artificially induced erection for local and nodal staging in surgically treated penile cancer. Methods: This prospective, single-centre diagnostic accuracy study included consecutive patients who underwent preoperative multiparametric MRI between 2017 and 2024, with postoperative histopathology as the reference standard. The primary endpoint was binary local T-staging (\u2264T1 vs. \u2265T2). Secondary endpoints were three-category T-staging (\u2264T1\/T2\/\u2265T3) and binary nodal staging (N0 vs. N+) in patients with pathological nodal verification. Two radiologists independently reassessed all 38 examinations in a post hoc reproducibility analysis. Results: Thirty-eight patients were included; all tumours were glans-based and treated with organ-sparing surgery. Binary local staging showed 68.4% accuracy (95% CI, 52.5\u201380.9%), 88.2% sensitivity, 52.4% specificity, 60.0% positive predictive value, 84.6% negative predictive value, and balanced accuracy of 0.703 (95% CI, 0.568\u20130.838). Overstaging predominated (10 false-positive vs. 2 false-negative classifications; p = 0.043). Three-category exact agreement was 52.6% (\u03ba = 0.257). In the pathologically verified nodal subset (n = 30), accuracy was 83.3% (95% CI, 66.4\u201392.7%), sensitivity 78.6%, specificity 87.5%, and balanced accuracy 0.830 (95% CI, 0.691\u20130.970). Inter-reader agreement was 92.1% for binary T staging (\u03ba = 0.837) and 97.4% for binary N staging (\u03ba = 0.943). Conclusions: mpMRI was sensitive but insufficiently specific for \u2265T2 disease and should not independently trigger treatment escalation. Nodal performance was encouraging but arose from a guideline-selected verified subset. 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