Cerebrovascular Malformation Mimicking Recurrent Lymphoma on Dual Time-Point 18F-FDOPA PET

Sonya Youngju Park1, Min Kyoung Lee2, Eun Ji Han1

  • 1From the Division of Nuclear Medicine, Department of Radiology.

Clinical Nuclear Medicine
|February 2, 2024
PubMed

Although 18F-FDG is the dominant radiotracer for PET imaging of hematological malignancies, radiolabeled amino acids have also been investigated to improve image quality in areas of high 18F-FDG uptake such as the central nervous system. We present a case of a 57-year-old woman who underwent an 18F-FDOPA scan for primary CNS lymphoma, which demonstrated an unexpected false-positive uptake in the right frontal lobe, due to a developmental venous anomaly.