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. 2014 Jan;29(1):55-6.
doi: 10.4103/0972-3919.125781.

Isolated cerebellar hypermetabolism on FDG PET in a case of remitted primary breast lymphoma

Arun Kumar Reddy  1 , Sampath Santhosh  1 , Bhagwant Rai Mittal  1 , Anish Bhattacharya  1 , Suresh C Sharma  2
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Isolated cerebellar hypermetabolism on FDG PET in a case of remitted primary breast lymphoma

Arun Kumar Reddy et al. Indian J Nucl Med. 2014 Jan.

Abstract

We present here a case of primary non-Hodgkin's lymphoma of the breast that succumbed in a sub-acute course to death after three months of initial remission. The fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography imaging during the declining clinical status showed isolated cerebellar hypermetabolism.

Keywords: Fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography; isolated cerebellar hypermetabolism; paraneoplastic cerebellar degeneration; primary breast lymphoma.

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Conflict of Interest: None declared.

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Figure 1
Figure 1
PET/CT images (a) anterior and (b) left lateral maximum intensity projection images show hypermetabolic cerebellum with no abnormal FDG localization elsewhere. CT, PET and fused- PET/CT transaxial (c-e) and sagittal (f-h) images of the head show intense diffuse FDG-uptake in the cerebellum. The findings were suggestive of relapse of disease vs. paraneoplastic cerebellar degeneration
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