Thallium-201 SPECT of adjacent intracranial tumours: a contrast in thallium kinetics.
We report a case of adjacent intracranial tumours: malignant fibrous histiocytoma (MFH) and meningioma. Thallium-201 single-photon emission computed tomography demonstrated different thallium kinetics between the tumours (slow washout from the MFH and rapid clearance in the meningioma) and could be said to have been useful for preoperative histological estimation.
Yoshikai
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Department of Radiology, Saga Medical School, Nabeshima 5-1-1, Saga 849-8501, Japan.
Shimokawa
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Uchino
A
A
Kato
A
A
Takase
Y
Y
Abe
M
M
Tabuchi
K
K
Kudo
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S
D000368:Aged; D001932:Brain Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D005625:Frontal Lobe / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology; D018219:Histiocytoma, Benign Fibrous / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D008577:Meningeal Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology; D008579:Meningioma / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology; D009378:Neoplasms, Multiple Primary / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology; D015899:Tomography, Emission-Computed, Single-Photon