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Fig. 2

From: Preliminary clinical assessment of dynamic carbon-11 methionine positron-emission tomography/computed tomography for the diagnosis of the pathologies in patients with musculoskeletal lesions: a prospective study

Fig. 2

A 67-year-old man with chronic expanding haematoma in the right femur. Dynamic positron-emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) (ad) images are shown. In the dynamic first phases (a), the focal faint accumulation is identifiable in the anterior part from the dynamic first phase (arrows, SUVmax: dynamic first phase, 2.58). After the dynamic second phases (bd), the accumulation gradually becomes subtler in most parts of the tumour (SUVmax: dynamic second phase (b), 2.18; dynamic third phase, 1.77; dynamic fourth phase (c), 1.56; dynamic fifth phase, 1.49; dynamic sixth phase (d), 1.29). The time-SUVmax curve (e) shows a low level in SUVmax at the dynamic first phase and a gradual decrease during the dynamic phases. The post-contrast CT with iodine contrast medium (f) reveals the enhancing solid component in the anterior part of the haematoma and cortical erosion of thigh bone by the haematoma

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