FDG PET in Intracranial Carcinomatous Meningitis. (January 2016)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Heimburger, Céline; Bund, Caroline; Namer, Izzie Jacques
• Is Part Of: Clinical nuclear medicine. Volume 41:Number 1(2016)
• Publication Date: 2016-01
• Subjects: FDG PET/CT -- carcinomatous meningitis -- lung cancer; Nuclear medicine -- Periodicals; Radioisotope scanning -- Periodicals; Nuclear Medicine -- Periodicals; 616.07575
• DOI: 10.1097/RLU.0000000000001024
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0363-9762

Abstract

Abstract : Abstract: A 63-year-old white man, diagnosed with pT3N2 squamous cell lung carcinoma, underwent right upper lobectomy with adjuvant radiochemotherapy. After a partial epileptic seizure, MRI revealed a solitary right frontal metastasis that was treated with surgical resection followed by stereotaxic radiotherapy. Three months later, the patient presented weight loss, weakness, and headache. He underwent a whole-body FDG PET/CT for restaging. It showed intense FDG uptakes on the brain periphery corresponding to nodular meningeal contrast enhancement on MRI leading to the diagnosis of carcinomatous meningitis, despite negative cerebrospinal fluid cytology.