The incidental suggestive meningioma presenting as high 18F FP-CIT uptake on PET/CT study

Clin Nucl Med. 2014 Jan;39(1):e97-8. doi: 10.1097/RLU.0b013e3182815d16.

Abstract

A 76-year-old woman with about a 13-month history of bradykinesia, gait disturbance and resting tremor of right upper extremity was referred to Nuclear Medicine Department. A PET-CT with 229 MBq of F FP-CIT was performed to diagnose suspected early Parkinson's disease (PD). The PET-CT showed a mass lesion with highly intense focal dopamine transporter uptake in the right frontal lobe. A subsequent brain magnetic resonance image also showed a mass in the right frontal lobe demonstrating homogeneous enhancement and extensive surrounding edema, highly suggestive of a brain tumor.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Aged
  • Biological Transport
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Incidental Findings*
  • Meningeal Neoplasms / diagnosis*
  • Meningeal Neoplasms / diagnostic imaging
  • Meningeal Neoplasms / metabolism
  • Meningioma / diagnosis*
  • Meningioma / diagnostic imaging
  • Meningioma / metabolism
  • Multimodal Imaging*
  • Positron-Emission Tomography*
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed*
  • Tropanes* / metabolism

Substances

  • Tropanes
  • 2-carbomethoxy-8-(3-fluoropropyl)-3-(4-iodophenyl)tropane