title: Giant postsurgical pseudomeningocele by SPECT/CT cisternography.
abstract: We describe a case of a 32-year-old man with a giant pseudomeningocele seen on MRI examination 6 months after spinal surgery. Radionuclide SPECT/CT cisternography performed after intrathecal suboccipital injection of In-DTPA identified the site of cerebral spinal fluid leak at the L4 level, and the patient underwent surgical correction of the dural defect. A repeat MRI examination 8 months later showed no signs of recurrence.
authors.affiliation: From the *Service de Biophysique et Médecine Nucléaire, †Service de Neurochirurgie, and ‡Service de Radiologie, Hôpital de Hautepierre, Hôpitaux Universitaires de Strasbourg; §ICube, Université de Strasbourg/CNRS UMR 7357; and ║FMTS-Faculté de Médecine, Strasbourg, France.
authors.forename: Sébastien
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Dietemann
authors.forename: Mustapha
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Benmekhbi
authors.forename: Mohamed Amine
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Lahlou
authors.forename: Pierre
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Kehrli
authors.forename: Jean-Louis
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Dietemann
authors.forename: Izzie Jacques
authors.initials: IJ
authors.lastname: Namer
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D065634:Cerebrospinal Fluid Leak / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000209:etiology; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008588:Meningocele / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000209:etiology; D064847:Multimodal Imaging; D011183:Postoperative Complications; D015899:Tomography, Emission-Computed, Single-Photon; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed