Fig. 1

Prior to neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy, the esophageal tumor shows high 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose uptake (9.7 × 5.6 cm, maximum standardized uptake value 29.3/1 hour) (red circles). Prior to neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy, there are no active lesions seen in liver segment I (red arrows)