Imaging Case 7:
Gastroenteropancreatic neuro-endocrine tumor

Neuroendocrine tumors (NETs) are rare tumors arising from neuroendocrine cells dispersed throughout the body. As these tumors overexpress somatostatin receptors, molecular imaging with somatostatin receptor ligands has been gaining importance in diagnosis and follow-up of NETs^[1]. This clinical case illustrates how the power of molecular imaging with a specific tracer can also be leveraged to provide insights during surgery for NETs by using high-resolution specimen PET-CT imaging.

This information and images in this clinical case have been reproduced from the paper published by prof. Francesco Ceci and his team^[2].