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| Year : 2016 | Volume
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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 Koroglu1, Ismail Koksal2, Fatma Gezer3, Aysegul Kahraman4, Ersoy Kekilli2
1 Department of Nuclear Medicine, Karabuk University, Karabuk, Turkey
2 Department of Nuclear Medicine, Inonu University, Turgut Ozal Medical Center, Malatya, Turkey
3 Department of Anesthesiology, Yildirim Beyazit University, Training and Research Hospital, Ankara, Turkey
4 Department of Radiology, Inonu University, Turgut Ozal Medical Center, Malatya, Turkey
Correspondence Address:
Reyhan Koroglu
Department of Nuclear Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Karabuk University, Karabuk
Turkey
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DOI: 10.4103/1450-1147.167590 PMID: 26912985 
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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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