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Maria Mathew D'Souza1, Abhinav Jaimini, Madhavi Tripathi, Naresh Garg, Rajnish Sharma, Anupam Monndal, Rajendra P Tripathi.
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A 58-year-old woman with breast carcinoma, after mastectomy, radiotherapy, and chemotherapy, underwent a whole-body F-18 FDG PET/CT for restaging, which revealed multiple skeletal metastasis. Hypometabolism was noted in the right frontal lobe. The patient subsequently underwent a C-11 methionine brain scan, which demonstrated multiple dural-based metastatic foci confirmed on contrast-enhanced MR. FDG PET has limitations in brain tumor detection. Amino acid tracers are particularly attractive for imaging of brain tumors because of relatively high tumor to brain activity ratios.Entities:
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Year: 2012 PMID： 22228356 DOI： 10.1097/RLU.0b013e31823eac44
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Clin Nucl Med ISSN： 0363-9762 Impact factor: 7.794