title: Glucose Hypometabolism in Developmental Venous Anomaly Without Apparent Parenchymal Damage.
abstract: Two cases of F-FDG PET in developmental venous anomaly (DVA) with visual impairment were examined. Plain MRI could not determine the cause of visual symptoms; a contrast-enhanced CT scan showed the existence of DVA without apparent parenchymal damage due to infarction or hemorrhage. F-FDG PET revealed that the hypometabolic area extended to the visual tract, thus explaining the association between the visual impairment and DVA. F-FDG PET is therefore a useful tool for the evaluation of symptomatic DVA.
authors.affiliation: From the *Neuroimaging Research, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Gerontology, Tokyo; †Department of Radiology, Toranomon Hospital, Tokyo; and ‡Department of Radiology, Tokyo Metropolitan Geriatric Hospital, Tokyo, Japan.
authors.forename: Masamichi
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Imai
authors.forename: Mika
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Tanaka
authors.forename: Kenji
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Ishibashi
authors.forename: Aya
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Tokumaru
authors.forename: Kenji
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Ishii
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D019788:Fluorodeoxyglucose F18; D006801:Humans; D002538:Intracranial Arteriovenous Malformations / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D008297:Male; D000072356:Parenchymal Tissue / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D049268:Positron-Emission Tomography; D019275:Radiopharmaceuticals; D014786:Vision Disorders / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000209:etiology
chemical_list: D019275:Radiopharmaceuticals; D019788:Fluorodeoxyglucose F18