Recurrent glioma and crossed cerebellar diaschisis in a patient examined with 18F-DOPA and 18F-FDG PET/CT

Clin Nucl Med. 2012 Sep;37(9):878-9. doi: 10.1097/RLU.0b013e318262af2a.

Abstract

Two years after resection of a left parietal glioma, a 46-year-old woman underwent F-FDG and F-DOPA brain PET/CT. FDG showed left parietal hypometabolism with crossed cerebellar diaschisis. No abnormally increased FDG activity was seen. F-DOPA PET/CT scan demonstrated focal left parietal uptake. Recurrent glioma was confirmed by surgical biopsy. F-DOPA may demonstrate abnormal amino acid metabolism in evaluation of recurrence of glioma.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Cerebellar Diseases / complications*
  • Dihydroxyphenylalanine / analogs & derivatives*
  • Female
  • Fluorodeoxyglucose F18*
  • Glioma / complications
  • Glioma / diagnostic imaging*
  • Glioma / pathology
  • Glioma / physiopathology*
  • Humans
  • Middle Aged
  • Radionuclide Imaging
  • Recurrence

Substances

  • Fluorodeoxyglucose F18
  • fluorodopa F 18
  • Dihydroxyphenylalanine