68Ga-DOTATATE Uptake in Ischemic Stroke

Clin Nucl Med. 2018 Jan;43(1):46-47. doi: 10.1097/RLU.0000000000001894.

Abstract

A 76-year-old man known to have a pancreatic neuroendocrine tumor with hepatic and lymph nodes metastasis had a follow-up Ga-DOTATATE PET/CT before Lu-DOTATATE therapy. A new cerebral lesion expressing somatostatin receptors was discovered in the right temporal lobe, suggestive of an ischemic stroke territory. This was later confirmed from the hospital chart where an ischemic stroke was described a month ago.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Aged
  • Biological Transport
  • Brain Ischemia / complications*
  • Humans
  • Lymphatic Metastasis
  • Male
  • Neuroendocrine Tumors / complications
  • Neuroendocrine Tumors / pathology
  • Organometallic Compounds / metabolism*
  • Positron Emission Tomography Computed Tomography
  • Receptors, Somatostatin / metabolism
  • Stroke / complications*
  • Stroke / diagnostic imaging
  • Stroke / metabolism*

Substances

  • Organometallic Compounds
  • Receptors, Somatostatin
  • gallium Ga 68 dotatate