title: Persistent Asymmetric Brain MIBG Activity Related to a Cerebrovascular Infarct.
abstract: A 13-year-old woman with a history of left malignant carotid body paraganglioma status postsurgical resection underwent 123I-MIBG scan for staging. The images demonstrated no definite evidence of MIBG-avid disease. However, there was asymmetric activity in the region of the brain with relatively less activity on the left compared with the contralateral right side on the head images, which was related to prior infarct revealed from the patient's history. This asymmetric MIBG activity persisted 8 years later.
authors.affiliation: From the *Department of Nuclear Medicine, the Affiliated Hospital of Inner Mongolia Medical University, Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, People's Republic of China; and †Department of Radiology, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA.
authors.forename: Xia
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Bai
authors.forename: Hongming
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Zhuang
mesh_terms: D019797:3-Iodobenzylguanidine; D000293:Adolescent; D020520:Brain Infarction / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D002345:Carotid Body Tumor / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D010235:Paraganglioma / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D019275:Radiopharmaceuticals
chemical_list: D019275:Radiopharmaceuticals; D019797:3-Iodobenzylguanidine