Clinical role of 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography in post-operative follow up of gastric cancer: Initial results

Figure 1 A 56-year-men who had had gastric cancer resection 3 years previously underwent PET/CT because of suspected disease recurrence upon barium swallow examination (white arrows, A), Axial contrast CT demonstrated local thickened stomach wall at anastomosis (white arrows, C). Axial PET (black arrows, B) and PET/CT fusion images (white arrow, D) showed focal hypermetabolic activity in the remnant stomach, which was later verified as malignant by histopathology.