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CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 · World J Nucl Med 2016; 15(01): 68-70
DOI: 10.4103/1450-1147.167590
Case report

A 18F-FDG PET/CT screening study of a hepatocellular carcinoma patient with diffuse 18F-FDG uptake into the portal vein and its intrahepatic branches

Reyhan Koroglu
Department of Nuclear Medicine, Karabuk University, Karabuk
,
Ismail Koksal
1   Department of Nuclear Medicine, Inonu University, Turgut Ozal Medical Center, Malatya
,
Fatma Gezer
2   Department of Anesthesiology, Yildirim Beyazit University, Training and Research Hospital, Ankara, Turkey
,
Aysegul Kahraman
3   Department of Radiology, Inonu University, Turgut Ozal Medical Center, Malatya
,
Ersoy Kekilli
1   Department of Nuclear Medicine, Inonu University, Turgut Ozal Medical Center, Malatya
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Major vascular invasion is one of the worst prognostic factors of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Fludeoxyglucose F 18 (18F-FDG) positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) method is succesfully being used in HCC patients for the detection of particularly long-distance metastasis. Major vascular invasion is shown by radiological methods [particularly dynamic CT and/or magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)]. A male patient aged 60 years was diagnosed with HCC, according to biopsy after the detection of a mass in the liver. His medical examinations that were performed for the evaluation in terms of liver transplantation were dynamic CT and dynamic MRI; invasion in the intrahepatic branches of the portal vein and in main portal vein was also detected. PET/CT was performed to investigate the distant metastases. Moreover, diffuse 18F-FDG uptake in the intrahepatic branches of the portal vein and in the main portal vein was observed.

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Diffuse fludeoxyglucose F 18 (18F-FDG) uptake - hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) - intrahepatic branches of the portal vein


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19 May 2022

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