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CT after i.v. contrast administration in transversal and coronal plane (upper row a, b; lower row right d) and fused PET-CT data (lower row left c), showing the fracture (thick arrow, a) as well as the underlying bone destruction of cortical and spongy bone (thin arrows, a) and the surrounding, slighty contrast enhancing soft tissue swelling (b) as well as the FDG-tracer uptake within the tumor and within the both ipsilateral suspected lymph node metastases.
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Two different MIP (Maximum intensity projections) of the FDG-PET-data after CTAC (CT-based attenuation correction), showing the local finding in the left mandible and the two lymph node metastases ipsilateral, no distant metastases.
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Using a positron emission tomography-computed tomography (PET-CT) further peripheral metastases could be excluded (Fig. 2).