title: Blood flow and oxygen metabolism in a case of Lhermitte-Duclos disease: results of positron emission tomography.
abstract: We evaluated blood flow and oxygen metabolism in a patient with Lhermitte-Duclos disease using brain positron emission tomography. The lesion showed increased blood flow, reduced oxygen extraction fraction and normal metabolic rates of oxygen. These findings suggest that lesions of Lhermitte-Duclos disease may constitute hamartoma or hypertrophy rather than neoplasm.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurosurgery and Cyclotron Research Center, Iwate Medical University, Morioka, Japan. kuogasa@iwate-med.ac.jp
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Ogasawara
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Beppu
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Yasuda
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kobayashi
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Yukawa
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ogawa
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001921:Brain / Q000098:blood supply* / Q000378:metabolism; D002526:Cerebellar Diseases / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000503:physiopathology*; D006801:Humans; D006984:Hypertrophy; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D010100:Oxygen / Q000378:metabolism*; D012039:Regional Blood Flow; D014055:Tomography, Emission-Computed
chemical_list: D010100:Oxygen