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Article History

Accepted: 11 December 2024

First Online: 7 January 2025

Declarations

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: Daniele Antonio Pizzuto has been awarded financial support by Fondazione Umberto Veronesi ETS as winner of the Post-Doctoral Fellowship 2023. The authors do not declare any other funds, grants, or other support during the preparation of this manuscript.

: All authors (DAP, AC, MC, MC, SA, AC, GC, MC, LR, GC, FL & PM) declare that they have no relevant financial or nonfinancial interests to disclose.

: All authors contributed to the study conceptualization. Methodology, investigation, project administration, data curation, resources, software, validation, and visualization were performed by Angelo Castello, Daniele Antonio Pizzuto, Massimo Castellani, Salvatore Annunziata, Annalisa Campanella, Giuseppe Calabrese, Margherita Cattaneo, Lorenzo Rosso, and Giacomo Cusumano. Formal analysis was performed by Angelo Castello. The original draft of the manuscript was written by Daniele Antonio Pizzuto, Angelo Castello, and Marco Chiappetta. The writing (review and editing) was performed by Filippo Lococo and Paolo Mendogni. All authors commented on previous versions of the manuscript. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.

: The study was approved by the local Ethics Committee and partner institutional review boards of the promoting institution (Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli IRCCS, Rome. Study identification: 2021/3027). All patients were previously informed and signed their agreement before undergoing [18F]F-FDG PET/CT, in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki.

: Not applicable.

: All data generated or analyzed during this study are included in this published article.

: Not applicable.