Imaging Case 10:
Prostate cancer – Adenocarcinoma

Nerve-sparing radical prostatectomy aims to reduce postoperative impotence, but this comes at the cost of a higher probability of incomplete resection. In this case, we illustrate how intraoperative specimen PET-CT imaging with ¹⁸F-PSMA can visualize the tumor in the resected tissue specimen. This could aid the surgeon in deciding whether it is necessary to remove more tissue intraoperatively.

This clinical case is courtesy of PD Dr. C. Darr and Prof. B. Hadaschik, Department of Urology, Universitätsmedizin Essen and is part of a case series published in European Urology Open Science in 2023.