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Correlative imaging with (18)F-FDG PET/CT and MRI in paraneoplastic limbic encephalitis
Anna Margherita Maffione1, Sotirios Chondrogiannis, Alice Ferretti
1Department of Nuclear Medicine, PET/CT Centre, Santa Maria della Misericordia Hospital Rovigo, Rovigo, Italy. maffione.anna@azisanrovigo.it
Abstract:
Limbic encephalitis is one of the most common paraneoplastic neurological syndromes, which is mostly associated with small cell lung cancer, testicular tumors, and breast cancer. F-FDG PET/CT can have an important role both in the identification of limbic encephalitis itself and in the detection of the unknown malignancy that might have caused it. We report a case of a 57-year-old female patient with paraneoplastic limbic encephalitis, confirmed both by MRI and F-FDG PET/CT, and the concurrent identification of an unknown lung malignancy by whole-body PET/CT.
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