Spinal Metastases of a High Grade Astrocytoma Visualized With FDG-PET

A 42-year-old woman had experienced headaches, back pain, and progressive paraplegia 11 months after surgery and radiotherapy for an astrocytoma III-IV (World Health Organization) of the right frontal lobe. PET imaging with F-18-fluorodeoxyglucose showed multiple hypermetabolic lesions along the neu...

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Published in:Clinical nuclear medicine 1997-12, Vol.22 (12), p.863-864
Main Authors: WOESLER, BURKHARD, KUWERT, TORSTEN, PROBST-COUSIN, STEFAN, SCHÄFERS, MICHAEL, WASSMANN, HANDSDETLEF, GULLOTTA, FILIPPO, SCHOBER, OTMAR
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adult
Biological and medical sciences
Brain Neoplasms - pathology
Female
Fluorine Radioisotopes
Fluorodeoxyglucose F18
Glioblastoma - diagnostic imaging
Glioblastoma - secondary
Humans
Investigative techniques, diagnostic techniques (general aspects)
Medical sciences
Nervous system
Radionuclide investigations
Radiopharmaceuticals
Spinal Cord Neoplasms - diagnostic imaging
Spinal Cord Neoplasms - secondary
Tomography, Emission-Computed
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Summary:A 42-year-old woman had experienced headaches, back pain, and progressive paraplegia 11 months after surgery and radiotherapy for an astrocytoma III-IV (World Health Organization) of the right frontal lobe. PET imaging with F-18-fluorodeoxyglucose showed multiple hypermetabolic lesions along the neuroaxis corresponding to contrast-enhancing tumors on spinal MRI, in particular at the level of the first and seventh cervical vertebra. Histopathologic examination of cerebrospinal fluid revealed atypical cells compatible with neoplasm. This combination of clinical, radiological, and histopathologic findings was interpreted as indicative of metastatic glioma along the spinal cord.
ISSN:0363-9762
1536-0229
DOI:10.1097/00003072-199712000-00019