Fig. 2
Case of a 50-year-old female who was admitted to the emergency department with severe abdominal pain radiating to the back and a weight loss of 12 kg. Diffuse pain over the abdominal area was registered during the physical examination. After the detection of a space-occupying pancreatic mass lesion by ultrasound, dual-energy computed tomography was performed. Transversal, coronal, and sagittal planes of contrast-enhanced scans (A, C, E) showed a mass of the pancreatic body which was highly suspicious of cancer. Histopathological examination revealed a pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma. The right column shows the tumor outlined with a semi-automatic delineation method in yellow (B, D, F). A three-dimensional illustration of the tumor is displayed at the center of the image (G)