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Discordance between F-18 fluorodeoxyglucose uptake and contrast enhancement in a brain abscess
M A Meyer1, K A Frey, M Schwaiger
1Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan Medical Center, Ann Arbor.
Clinical Nuclear Medicine
|August 1, 1993
Abstract:
A 29-year-old human immunodeficiency virus-negative intravenous drug abuser with a right hemispheric staphylococcal brain abscess underwent PET imaging of 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) brain uptake. Diffuse right cortical hypometabolism was noted, as well as crossed cerebellar diaschisis. Unlike previous PET findings on FDG uptake in a brain abscess, however, the most intense uptake of FDG was found within the abscess and not in the contrast-enhancing walls.