title: Correlative imaging with (18)F-FDG PET/CT and MRI in paraneoplastic limbic encephalitis.
abstract: Limbic encephalitis is one of the most common paraneoplastic neurological syndromes, which is mostly associated with small cell lung cancer, testicular tumors, and breast cancer. F-FDG PET/CT can have an important role both in the identification of limbic encephalitis itself and in the detection of the unknown malignancy that might have caused it. We report a case of a 57-year-old female patient with paraneoplastic limbic encephalitis, confirmed both by MRI and F-FDG PET/CT, and the concurrent identification of an unknown lung malignancy by whole-body PET/CT.
authors.affiliation: Department of Nuclear Medicine, PET/CT Centre, Santa Maria della Misericordia Hospital Rovigo, Rovigo, Italy. maffione.anna@azisanrovigo.it
authors.forename: Anna Margherita
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Maffione
authors.forename: Sotirios
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Chondrogiannis
authors.forename: Alice
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ferretti
authors.forename: Adil
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Al-Nahhas
authors.forename: Domenico
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Rubello
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D019788:Fluorodeoxyglucose F18; D006801:Humans; D020363:Limbic Encephalitis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D008168:Lung / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008875:Middle Aged; D064847:Multimodal Imaging; D011859:Radiography; D011877:Radionuclide Imaging
chemical_list: D019788:Fluorodeoxyglucose F18