Recurrent glioma and crossed cerebellar diaschisis in a patient examined with 18F-DOPA and 18F-FDG PET/CT.
Two years after resection of a left parietal glioma, a 46-year-old woman underwent F-FDG and F-DOPA brain PET/CT. FDG showed left parietal hypometabolism with crossed cerebellar diaschisis. No abnormally increased FDG activity was seen. F-DOPA PET/CT scan demonstrated focal left parietal uptake. Recurrent glioma was confirmed by surgical biopsy. F-DOPA may demonstrate abnormal amino acid metabolism in evaluation of recurrence of glioma.
Department of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, IRCCS Neuromed, Pozzilli (IS), University Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy. ferdinandocalabria@hotmail.it
Ferdinando
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Calabria
Orazio
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Schillaci
D002526:Cerebellar Diseases / Q000150:complications*; D004295:Dihydroxyphenylalanine / Q000031:analogs & derivatives*; D005260:Female; D019788:Fluorodeoxyglucose F18; D005910:Glioma / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology / Q000503:physiopathology*; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D011877:Radionuclide Imaging; D012008:Recurrence
D019788:Fluorodeoxyglucose F18; C043437:fluorodopa F 18; D004295:Dihydroxyphenylalanine