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| Year : 2017 | Volume
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| Issue : 3 | Page : 243-244 |
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Extra-striatal uptake of 99mTc-TRODAT-1 in meningioma detected on SPECT/CT: Diagnostic clue or mere coincidence?
Piyush Chandra, Satish Nath
Department of Nuclear Medicine, MIOT International Hospital, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Correspondence Address:
Piyush Chandra
DNB, Department of Nuclear Medicine, MIOT International Hospital, Manapakkam, Chennai, Tamil Nadu
India
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DOI: 10.4103/ijnm.IJNM_34_17
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Incidental observation of extra-striatal uptake of 99mTc-TRODAT-1 has been reported previously in multiple space-occupying lesions of the brain. We present here a SPECT/CT scan of a 60-year old female with parkinsonism, with normal presynaptic dopaminergic transporters expression and with an intense tracer uptake in a large right-sided frontoparietal meningioma. |
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