Imaging Case 8:
Pancreatic adenocarcinoma

Pancreatic adenocarcinoma is the most frequent tumor occurring in the pancreas. Early-stage pancreatic cancers can be treated surgically, but there is a high-rate of positive surgical margins, which may be associated with a worse prognosis. Therefore, intraoperative evaluation of the resected specimen to ensure free surgical margins could be of interest.

In this clinical case we show how a detailed view of the resected pancreas specimen can be obtained with high-resolution specimen PET-CT imaging. The information and images in this case stem from a pilot study performed by prof. Frederik Berrevoet and his team at Ghent University Hospital.