Radiation-induced meningioma evaluated with positron emission tomography with fludeoxyglucose F 18

H Kado; T Ogawa; J Hatazawa; M Iwase; I Kanno; T Okudera; K Uemura

Radiation-induced meningioma evaluated with positron emission tomography with fludeoxyglucose F 18

AJNR Am J Neuroradiol. 1996 May;17(5):937-8.

Authors

H Kado¹, T Ogawa, J Hatazawa, M Iwase, I Kanno, T Okudera, K Uemura

Affiliation

¹ Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Research Institute of Brain and Blood Vessels, Akita, Japan.

PMID: 8733970
PMCID: PMC8337503

Abstract

We describe a patient with radiation-induced meningioma 12 years after cranial irradiation for ectopic germinoma. PET scans with fludeoxyglucose F 18 showed a high glucose metabolic rate in the meningioma despite a benign histologic appearance.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Adult
Basal Ganglia Diseases / radiotherapy
Brain Neoplasms / radiotherapy
Choristoma / radiotherapy
Cranial Irradiation / adverse effects
Deoxyglucose / analogs & derivatives*
Fluorine Radioisotopes*
Fluorodeoxyglucose F18
Germinoma / radiotherapy
Glucose / metabolism
Humans
Male
Meningeal Neoplasms / diagnostic imaging*
Meningeal Neoplasms / etiology
Meningeal Neoplasms / metabolism
Meningioma / diagnostic imaging*
Meningioma / etiology
Meningioma / metabolism
Neoplasms, Radiation-Induced / diagnostic imaging*
Neoplasms, Radiation-Induced / etiology
Neoplasms, Radiation-Induced / metabolism
Tomography, Emission-Computed*

Substances

Fluorine Radioisotopes
Fluorodeoxyglucose F18
Deoxyglucose
Glucose