title: The incidental suggestive meningioma presenting as high 18F FP-CIT uptake on PET/CT study.
abstract: A 76-year-old woman with about a 13-month history of bradykinesia, gait disturbance and resting tremor of right upper extremity was referred to Nuclear Medicine Department. A PET-CT with 229 MBq of F FP-CIT was performed to diagnose suspected early Parkinson's disease (PD). The PET-CT showed a mass lesion with highly intense focal dopamine transporter uptake in the right frontal lobe. A subsequent brain magnetic resonance image also showed a mass in the right frontal lobe demonstrating homogeneous enhancement and extensive surrounding edema, highly suggestive of a brain tumor.
authors.affiliation: From the Departments of *Neurology and †Radiology, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, South Korea.
authors.forename: In-Uk
authors.initials: IU
authors.lastname: Song
authors.forename: Sang-Hoon
authors.initials: SH
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: Yong-An
authors.initials: YA
authors.lastname: Chung
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D001692:Biological Transport; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D033162:Incidental Findings; D008577:Meningeal Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000378:metabolism; D008579:Meningioma / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000378:metabolism; D064847:Multimodal Imaging; D049268:Positron-Emission Tomography; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D014326:Tropanes / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D014326:Tropanes; C087552:2-carbomethoxy-8-(3-fluoropropyl)-3-(4-iodophenyl)tropane