| Literature DB >> 24152638 |
Benjamin Coiffard1, Eric Guedj, Aurélie Daumas, Pierre Leveque, Patrick Villani.
Abstract
The role of brain 18F-FDG PET in the diagnostic evaluation of encephalitis has been recently suggested, especially in limbic encephalitis, but descriptions are mainly limited to small case reports. However, the evaluation of cerebral metabolism by 18F-FDG PET has never been described for varicella-zoster virus encephalitis. We report the first case of varicella-zoster virus encephalitis in which 18F-FDG PET revealed brain metabolic abnormalities. Brain metabolic PET imaging was analyzed by comparing the patient's brain 18F-FDG PET scans to that of 12 healthy subjects. Compared with healthy subjects, significant hypometabolism and hypermetabolism were found and evolved over time with treatment.Entities:
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Year: 2014 PMID： 24152638 DOI： 10.1097/RLU.0000000000000276
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Clin Nucl Med ISSN： 0363-9762 Impact factor: 7.794