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Fig. 30

From: Primary and secondary tumors of the peritoneum: key imaging features and differential diagnosis with surgical and pathological correlation

Fig. 30

Foreign body granuloma in a 67-year-old woman with previous resection of descending colon adenocarcinoma. a Axial CT image in the portal phase shows a pseudonodular lesion of solid appearance in the left paracolic gutter, adjacent to surgical sutures (red arrows), that raised the suspicion of local recurrence. b Axial PET image showed increased metabolic activity of the lesion (red arrows). Surgical resection was made and H&E stain photomicrograph (c) showed a chronic inflammatory infiltrate with multinucleated giant cells of foreign body type (black oval)

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