Ictal 18F-FDG PET/MRI in a Patient With Cortical Heterotopia and Focal Epilepsy

Clin Nucl Med. 2017 Oct;42(10):768-769. doi: 10.1097/RLU.0000000000001797.

Abstract

A 19-year-old man with epilepsy underwent ictal F-FDG PET/MRI, showing a 5 mm heterotopic nodule in the periventricular white matter, adjacent to the frontal horn of the left lateral ventricle (SUVmax, 5.5; glucidic cerebral metabolic rate, 0.317 μmol/mL). A repeated F-FDG PET/MRI, during seizure freedom, showed, at visual analysis, subtle decrease of the nodule metabolism. SUVmax and glucidic cerebral metabolic rate were clearly reduced to 3.7 and 0.226, respectively. Ictal F-FDG PET/MRI could be useful in epilepsy because of the added value of SUVmax and cerebral metabolic rate of glucose analysis to understand the relationship between heterotopy and epilepsy.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Epilepsies, Partial / complications
  • Epilepsies, Partial / diagnostic imaging*
  • Female
  • Fluorodeoxyglucose F18*
  • Humans
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging*
  • Male
  • Positron-Emission Tomography*

Substances

  • Fluorodeoxyglucose F18