When should a gallium-dotatate scan be incorporated into the initial evaluation of a patient with a carcinoid tumor of the appendix?  

Good question! I would first refer the reader to my two favorite papers on appendiceal NETs (Rault-Petit et al., PMID 29557879; Landry et al., PMID 18645109) to understand and help determine: 1) which patients are at highest risk of lymph node metastasis and thus require a right hemicolectomy, and 2...