title: Impact of 123I-Ioflupane SPECT in Patient Management: Essential Tremor.
abstract: The usefulness of I-ioflupane imaging for detecting loss of functional dopaminergic neuron terminals in the striatum of patients with clinically uncertain parkinsonian syndromes is well known, especially to differentiate essential tremor from parkinsonisms. Here we present a case of a patient suspected of essential tremor but not responding to standard therapy, in which the results of DaTscan were fundamental to set up an alternative therapeutic approach.
authors.affiliation: From the *PET/CT Center, Nuclear Medicine Department, and †Neurology Department, Ospedale Civile di Legnano, Legnano, Milan, Italy.
authors.forename: Luca
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Dellavedova
authors.forename: Andrea
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Giorgetti
authors.forename: Lorenzo Stefano
authors.initials: LS
authors.lastname: Maffioli
mesh_terms: D003342:Corpus Striatum / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D020329:Essential Tremor / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D009662:Nortropanes; D020734:Parkinsonian Disorders / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D019275:Radiopharmaceuticals; D015899:Tomography, Emission-Computed, Single-Photon
chemical_list: D009662:Nortropanes; D019275:Radiopharmaceuticals; C519528:ioflupane