Primary staging of a patient with pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma. (IMAGE)

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Primary staging of a patient with pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma.

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Primary staging of a patient with PDAC. (A) Axial images of PDAC and liver in arterial (upper image) and venous (lower image) ceCT scan. (B) Mean intensity projection (MIP) images of 18F-FDG and FAPI PET/CT imaging. (C) Axial 18F-FDG and FAPI PET/CT images of same patient on level (blue line in A) of pancreatic tumor mass and another suspicious FAPI accumulation in projection on perihepatic lymph node. Metastatic situation, which had been revealed by FAPI PET/CT, was confirmed by biopsy of pulmonary lesion that was diagnosed as metastasis of known PDAC.

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Image created by M Röhrich, University Hospital Heidelberg, Germany.

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