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FDG PET/CT: Normal Variants, Artefacts and Pitfalls in Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Malignancies

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This review depicts the common variations in imaging appearances of biliary and pancreatic malignancies on FDG PET/CT. Pitfalls and artefacts arising due to treatment-related complications are also described.

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    Nilendu Purandare, Sneha Shah, Archi Agrawal, Ameya Puranik & Venkatesh Rangarajan

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Purandare, N., Shah, S., Agrawal, A., Puranik, A., Rangarajan, V. (2018). FDG PET/CT: Normal Variants, Artefacts and Pitfalls in Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Malignancies. In: Purandare, N., Shah, S. (eds) PET/CT in Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Malignancies. Clinicians’ Guides to Radionuclide Hybrid Imaging(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60507-4_5

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