18F-Fluorocholine PET/CT, Brain MRI, and 5-Aminolevulinic Acid for the Assessment of Tumor Resection in High-Grade Glioma

Clin Nucl Med. 2017 Jun;42(6):e300-e303. doi: 10.1097/RLU.0000000000001643.

Abstract

High-grade glioma is a very aggressive and infiltrative tumor in which complete resection is a chance for a better outcome. We present the case of a 57-year-old man with a brain lesion suggestive of high-grade glioma. Brain MRI and F-fluorocholine PET/CT were performed previously to plan the surgery. Surgery was microscope assisted after the administration of 5-aminolevulinic acid. Postsurgery brain MRI and PET were blind evaluated to the surgery results and reported as probably gross total resection.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Aminolevulinic Acid / pharmacology*
  • Brain / diagnostic imaging*
  • Brain / drug effects
  • Brain / pathology
  • Brain / surgery
  • Brain Neoplasms / diagnostic imaging*
  • Brain Neoplasms / pathology
  • Brain Neoplasms / surgery
  • Choline / analogs & derivatives*
  • Glioma / diagnostic imaging*
  • Glioma / pathology
  • Glioma / surgery
  • Humans
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Neoplasm Grading
  • Positron Emission Tomography Computed Tomography*

Substances

  • fluorocholine
  • Aminolevulinic Acid
  • Choline