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Gliosarcoma with thallium-201 SPECT
N Watanabe1, E Okada, M Shimizu
1Department of Radiology, Toyama Medical and Pharmaceutical University, Japan. nw31456@ms.toyama-mpu.ac.jp
Annals of Nuclear Medicine
|December 7, 2000
Abstract:
Thallium-201 (201Tl) chloride scintigraphy is the imaging method use for the detection of various tumors including glioblastoma, but only limited information on 201Tl uptake in gliosarcoma is available. We investigated a patient with gliosarcoma by means of 201Tl single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) and MRI. SPECT imaging revealed high 201Tl uptake in the tumor, which was closely correlated with contrast-enhancement on MRI. These results suggest that SPECT with 201Tl may be useful for detecting gliosarcoma and provide physiological information on this tumor.