| Literature DB >> 28806243 |
Ferdinando F Calabria1, Giuseppe Lucio Cascini, Antonio Gambardella, Angelo Labate, Andrea Cherubini, Domenico Gullà, Benedetta Tafuri, Umberto Sabatini, Virginia Vescio, Aldo Quattrone.
Abstract
A 19-year-old man with epilepsy underwent ictal F-FDG PET/MRI, showing a 5 mm heterotopic nodule in the periventricular white matter, adjacent to the frontal horn of the left lateral ventricle (SUVmax, 5.5; glucidic cerebral metabolic rate, 0.317 μmol/mL). A repeated F-FDG PET/MRI, during seizure freedom, showed, at visual analysis, subtle decrease of the nodule metabolism. SUVmax and glucidic cerebral metabolic rate were clearly reduced to 3.7 and 0.226, respectively. Ictal F-FDG PET/MRI could be useful in epilepsy because of the added value of SUVmax and cerebral metabolic rate of glucose analysis to understand the relationship between heterotopy and epilepsy.Entities:
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Year: 2017 PMID： 28806243 DOI： 10.1097/RLU.0000000000001797
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Clin Nucl Med ISSN： 0363-9762 Impact factor: 7.794