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Transaxial CT images demonstrating appendiceal tumor growth with increasing wall thickening, periappendicular fat stranding and soft tissue nodules, developing from (A) no appendiceal involvement in September 2020, to (B) progressive involvement in August 2021.
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A blind-ending tubular structure originating from the cecum was identified as the appendix, which appeared enlarged with multiple nodules and associated inflammatory fat stranding when compared to a previous CT scan from September 2020 (Fig. 1A and B).
Transaxial 18F-PSMA-1007 PET imaging with high intensity expression seen in nodules on the appendix and in the umbilicus.
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The PET modality showed increased uptake in the right side of the prostate, the external iliac lymph nodes bilaterally, lymph nodes in the mesentery, carcinomatosis near the posterior wall of the bladder, in the umbilicus, and on the appendix (Fig. 2).
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