Pancreas Tumors

and Filiz Özülker¹

(1)

Nuclear Medicine, Okmeydani Training and Research Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey

11.1 Case 1: Pancreas Adenocarcinoma

History

A 73.-year-old female underwent tru-cut biopsy from mass lesion at liver and histopathology revealed metastasis of adenocarcinoma. A ¹⁸F-FDG PET/CT scan was performed in order to determine the primary malignancy.

Findings

Fig. 11.1

Axial CT and fusion images show multiple hypermetabolic mass lesions at both lobes of liver (SUVmax 10) (a, b) and a focal hypermetabolic lesion at the head of the pancreas (arrow) (SUVmax 8.7) (c, d)