title: MRI and 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography in hemimegalencephaly.
abstract: We report hemimegalencephaly in a 44-year-old woman with mental retardation, epilepsy and a mild hemiparesis. In addition to typical findings on MRI, 2-deoxy-2[18F]fluorodeoxyglucose positron-emission tomography (PET) demonstrated glucose hypometabolism of the affected hemisphere. The results of PET have been coregistered with morphological information from the MRI studies by image fusion.
authors: Department of Radiology, Virchow-Klinikum, Charité, Humboldt-University, Berlin, Germany. karl-titus.hoffmann@charite.de
authors: K T
authors: KT
authors: Hoffmann
authors: H
authors: H
authors: Amthauer
authors: T
authors: T
authors: Liebig
authors: N
authors: N
authors: Hosten
authors: A
authors: A
authors: Etou
authors: T N
authors: TN
authors: Lehmann
authors: J
authors: J
authors: Farahati
authors: R
authors: R
authors: Felix
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001921:Brain / Q000002:abnormalities* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D004827:Epilepsy / Q000209:etiology; D005260:Female; D019788:Fluorodeoxyglucose F18; D006801:Humans; D008607:Intellectual Disability / Q000209:etiology; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D010291:Paresis / Q000209:etiology; D019275:Radiopharmaceuticals; D014055:Tomography, Emission-Computed
chemical_list: D019275:Radiopharmaceuticals; D019788:Fluorodeoxyglucose F18