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Medulloblastoma with extensive nodularity: single photon emission CT study with iodine-123 metaiodobenzylguanidine
Yuichiro Naitoh1, Toshio Sasajima, Hiroyuki Kinouchi
1Department of Neurosurgery, Akita University School of Medicine, 1-1-1 Hondo, Akita 010-8543, Japan.
AJNR. American Journal of Neuroradiology
|October 10, 2002
Abstract:
We present the case of an infant with medulloblastoma with extensive nodularity, which had been called cerebellar neuroblastoma. MR imaging clearly revealed a nodular enhancement, which appeared as a grape-like lesion. Single photon emission CT revealed markedly high iodine-123 metaiodobenzylguanidine uptake in the enhancing tumor. Iodine-123 metaiodobenzylguanidine single photon emission CT may be useful in the diagnosis of medulloblastoma with extensive nodularity, which has been considered to be a subgroup of medulloblastoma with extensive neuronal differentiation.