Thallium-201 single-photon emission computed tomography imaging in a pediatric brain tumor. A case report

Pediatr Neurosurg. 1991;17(2):95-7. doi: 10.1159/000120574.

Abstract

Thallium brain single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) may be useful for differentiation of tumor recurrence from scar tissue and radiation necrosis and to predict low or high grade brain tumors. We report a case of an 11-year-old boy with recurrent oligodendroglioma who showed increased focal uptake of thallium-201 at the site of recurrence after surgery and radiotherapy on a SPECT imaging of the brain. This indicates viable tumor mass as opposed to radiation necrosis.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Brain Neoplasms / diagnostic imaging*
  • Brain Neoplasms / radiotherapy
  • Brain Neoplasms / surgery
  • Child
  • Combined Modality Therapy
  • Cranial Irradiation
  • Craniotomy
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Neoplasm Recurrence, Local / diagnostic imaging*
  • Oligodendroglioma / diagnostic imaging*
  • Oligodendroglioma / radiotherapy
  • Oligodendroglioma / surgery
  • Psychosurgery
  • Temporal Lobe / diagnostic imaging
  • Temporal Lobe / radiation effects
  • Temporal Lobe / surgery
  • Tomography, Emission-Computed, Single-Photon*