Correlative imaging with (18)F-FDG PET/CT and MRI in paraneoplastic limbic encephalitis

Clin Nucl Med. 2013 Jun;38(6):463-4. doi: 10.1097/RLU.0b013e318286bda5.

Abstract

Limbic encephalitis is one of the most common paraneoplastic neurological syndromes, which is mostly associated with small cell lung cancer, testicular tumors, and breast cancer. F-FDG PET/CT can have an important role both in the identification of limbic encephalitis itself and in the detection of the unknown malignancy that might have caused it. We report a case of a 57-year-old female patient with paraneoplastic limbic encephalitis, confirmed both by MRI and F-FDG PET/CT, and the concurrent identification of an unknown lung malignancy by whole-body PET/CT.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Female
  • Fluorodeoxyglucose F18*
  • Humans
  • Limbic Encephalitis / diagnostic imaging*
  • Lung / diagnostic imaging
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging*
  • Middle Aged
  • Multimodal Imaging*
  • Radiography
  • Radionuclide Imaging

Substances

  • Fluorodeoxyglucose F18