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Groove Pancreatitis Masquerading as Pancreatic Carcinoma—Detected on 18F-FDG PET/CT

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Groove pancreatitis is a rare form of chronic pancreatitis that affects the groove area adjacent to the second part of the duodenum. Clinical and biochemical features often overlap with other subsets of chronic pancreatitis, while the imaging features resemble that of carcinoma of the head of pancreas. We present a 38-year-old man with abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting, and loss of weight who underwent 18F-FDG PET/CT to rule out a pancreatic malignancy. PET/CT imaging features of groove pancreatitis are distinct from the other subsets of chronic pancreatitis, such as alcoholic and autoimmune pancreatitis, and helpful in the diagnosis and planning further management of the patient.

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  1. Department of Nuclear Medicine and PET/CT, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, 160012, India

    Ashwin Singh Parihar, Bhagwant Rai Mittal, Shelvin Kumar Vadi, Apurva Sood & Rajender Kumar

  2. Department of Gastroenterology, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India

    Usha Dutta

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Ashwin Singh Parihar, Bhagwant Rai Mittal, Shelvin Kumar Vadi, Apurva Sood, Rajender Kumar, and Usha Dutta declare that they have no conflict of interest.

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The institutional review board of our institute approved this retrospective study, and the requirement to obtain informed consent was waived.

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Parihar, A.S., Mittal, B.R., Vadi, S.K. et al. Groove Pancreatitis Masquerading as Pancreatic Carcinoma—Detected on 18F-FDG PET/CT. Nucl Med Mol Imaging 52, 473–474 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13139-018-0552-7

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