title: Discordance between F-18 fluorodeoxyglucose uptake and contrast enhancement in a brain abscess.
abstract: A 29-year-old human immunodeficiency virus-negative intravenous drug abuser with a right hemispheric staphylococcal brain abscess underwent PET imaging of 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) brain uptake. Diffuse right cortical hypometabolism was noted, as well as crossed cerebellar diaschisis. Unlike previous PET findings on FDG uptake in a brain abscess, however, the most intense uptake of FDG was found within the abscess and not in the contrast-enhancing walls.
authors.affiliation: Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan Medical Center, Ann Arbor.
authors.forename: M A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Meyer
authors.forename: K A
authors.initials: KA
authors.lastname: Frey
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Schwaiger
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001922:Brain Abscess / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000378:metabolism; D003847:Deoxyglucose / Q000031:analogs & derivatives* / Q000378:metabolism; D005260:Female; D005462:Fluorine Radioisotopes; D019788:Fluorodeoxyglucose F18; D006801:Humans; D013203:Staphylococcal Infections / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000378:metabolism; D014055:Tomography, Emission-Computed; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed
chemical_list: D005462:Fluorine Radioisotopes; D019788:Fluorodeoxyglucose F18; D003847:Deoxyglucose