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Case Reports
. 2024 Jun 1;49(6):e272-e273.
doi: 10.1097/RLU.0000000000005197. Epub 2024 Mar 25.

18 F-FET PET/CT in Calcifying Pseudoneoplasm of the Neuraxis : First Case

Demetrio Aricò  1 , Giulia Giacoppo  1 , Michelangelo Bambaci  1 , Lorenza Marino  2 , Andrea Girlando  2 , Giuseppe Sortino  3 , Giorgia Leone  4 , Bethania Fernandes  5 , Marco Alì  6 , Laura Evangelista  7 , Alberto Romano  8
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18 F-FET PET/CT in Calcifying Pseudoneoplasm of the Neuraxis : First Case

Demetrio Aricò et al. Clin Nucl Med. .

Abstract

A 66-year-old man has been treated in a psychiatric department for 4-5 years for a depressive syndrome, which is associated with poor motor initiative, confusional state, and dysosmia. Dynamic 18 F-FET PET/CT showed only faint uptake of radiotracer just above the background on the left frontal calcific lesion. The time-activity curve of the neoplasms showed a descending pattern. After a left fronto-orbitary minicraniotomy surgery, histology examination concluded for a rare calcifying pseudoneoplasm of the neuraxis (CAPNON). To our knowledge, no data are available on the metabolic behavior of CAPNON in 18 F-FET PET/CT. This case highlighted that a faint uptake and descending pattern on dynamic 18 F-FET PET/CT may be helpful in suspected CAPNON before surgery.

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