Metabolic restaging of hepatocellular carcinoma using whole-body 18F-FDG PET/CT

Figure 2 A 50-year woman who had HCC resection 2 years before had an intrahepatic HCC recurrence and received combined RFA and TACE treatment. A highly metabolically active lesion was detected on the top of the lesion by PET and PET/CT fused images (white arrows, A-C and G). Contrast-enhanced CT image showed the non enhanced mass with faint accumulation of iodized oil in the right lobe of the liver (D-F). PET/CT fused images revealed a low FDG uptake benign lesion in the right lung (I). All findings were later verified by clinical follow-up.