Tc-99m HMPAO SPECT of the brain in a patient with striopallidodentate calcifications

R Dierckx; P G Jorens; B Appel; F Hilte; J Vandevivere; P P De Deyn; G A Parizel

doi:10.1097/00003072-199106000-00013

Tc-99m HMPAO SPECT of the brain in a patient with striopallidodentate calcifications

Clin Nucl Med. 1991 Jun;16(6):439-40. doi: 10.1097/00003072-199106000-00013.

Authors

R Dierckx¹, P G Jorens, B Appel, F Hilte, J Vandevivere, P P De Deyn, G A Parizel

Affiliation

¹ Department of Nuclear Medicine, A.Z.-Middelheim, Antwerp, Belgium.

PMID: 1907898
DOI: 10.1097/00003072-199106000-00013

Abstract

CT scan in a 52-year-old woman, admitted because of grand mal seizure, showed striopallidodentate calcifications due to postoperative hypoparathyroidism. This patient report stresses the possibility of cortical metabolic involvement in this disorder, as shown on Tc-99m HMPAO brain SPECT, despite the absence of cognitive defects.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Brain / diagnostic imaging*
Brain Diseases / diagnostic imaging*
Brain Diseases / etiology
Calcinosis / diagnostic imaging*
Calcinosis / etiology
Epilepsy, Tonic-Clonic / etiology
Female
Humans
Hypoparathyroidism / complications*
Middle Aged
Organotechnetium Compounds*
Oximes*
Postoperative Complications / diagnostic imaging
Technetium Tc 99m Exametazime
Tomography, Emission-Computed, Single-Photon*

Substances

Organotechnetium Compounds
Oximes
Technetium Tc 99m Exametazime