A Case of Anaplastic Oligodendroglioma With Extensive Extraneural Metastases Imaged With FDG PET. (December 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Ambinder, Emily B.; Rowe, Steven P.
• Is Part Of: Clinical nuclear medicine. Volume 42:Number 12(2017)
• Publication Date: 2017-12
• Subjects: extraneural metastasis -- FDG PET -- oligodendroglioma; Nuclear medicine -- Periodicals; Radioisotope scanning -- Periodicals; Nuclear Medicine -- Periodicals; 616.07575
• DOI: 10.1097/RLU.0000000000001859
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0363-9762

Abstract

Abstract : Abstract: A 28-year-old man with history of anaplastic oligodendroglimoma in the left frontal lobe presented with worsening right leg weakness 2 months after surgical resection. MRI of the brain and spine demonstrated a new mass in the left parietal lobe, as well as extraneural osseous metastases. FDG PET scan subsequently showed widespread extraneural metastatic disease. Extraneural metastases from primary brain tumors are a rare occurrence, although anaplastic oligodendroglioma has a propensity for spreading in such a manner. FDG PET can effectively stage patients with extraneural metastases from anaplastic oligodendroglioma by detecting metastatic disease in sites such as the skeleton and liver.