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Thallium-201 accumulation in a patient with brain abscess
- Source :
- Annals of nuclear medicine. 16(5)
- Publication Year :
- 2002
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Abstract
- A 57-year-old man was admitted to our hospital because of high fever and generalized tonic seizure. Brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) delineated multiple abnormal intensity areas. Thallium-201 (201Tl) scintigraphy revealed abnormal uptake in the brain. The imaging findings did not allow definitive exclusion of brain tumor, even though brain abscess was the more strongly suspected diagnosis. As the patient improved, the multiple abnormal intensity areas in the brain on MRI and the abnormal areas of accumulation on 201Tl scintigraphy were reduced, and eventually completely disappeared. A final diagnosis of brain abscess was therefore made. Since relatively few studies have reported 201Tl accumulation in cases of brain abscess, we report here our patient in whom the changes in the accumulation of 201Tl in a brain abscess were observed over time.
- Subjects :
- Male
Pathology
medicine.medical_specialty
Brain tumor
Iodipamide
chemistry.chemical_element
Brain Abscess
Scintigraphy
Fever of Unknown Origin
Seizures
Parietal Lobe
medicine
Suspected diagnosis
Humans
Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and imaging
Brain magnetic resonance imaging
Thallium
Brain abscess
Tomography, Emission-Computed, Single-Photon
medicine.diagnostic_test
business.industry
General Medicine
Middle Aged
medicine.disease
High fever
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Frontal Lobe
chemistry
Radiology
business
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 09147187
- Volume :
- 16
- Issue :
- 5
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Annals of nuclear medicine
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....91d678163e600c483d69afea90f9c6e2