Nuclear Medicine Imaging in Pediatric Neurology

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AKDEMİR Ü. Ö., Kapucu L. Ö.

MOLECULAR IMAGING AND RADIONUCLIDE THERAPY, cilt.25, sa.1, ss.1-10, 2016 (ESCI) identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Derleme
  • Cilt numarası: 25 Sayı: 1
  • Basım Tarihi: 2016
  • Doi Numarası: 10.4274/mirt.49389
  • Dergi Adı: MOLECULAR IMAGING AND RADIONUCLIDE THERAPY
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI), TR DİZİN (ULAKBİM)
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.1-10
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: Single-photon emission computed tomography, positron emission tomography, neurology, epilepsy, brain neoplasms, Tc-99m HMPAO, F-18 FDG, POSITRON-EMISSION-TOMOGRAPHY, TEMPORAL-LOBE EPILEPSY, TRAUMATIC BRAIN-INJURY, HYPOXIC-ISCHEMIC ENCEPHALOPATHY, REFRACTORY FOCAL EPILEPSY, EANM PROCEDURE GUIDELINES, SUBTRACTION ICTAL SPECT, F-18-FDG PET, FDG-PET, NEOCORTICAL EPILEPSY
  • Gazi Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

Nuclear medicine imaging can provide important complementary information in the management of pediatric patients with neurological diseases. Pre-surgical localization of the epileptogenic focus in medically refractory epilepsy patients is the most common indication for nuclear medicine imaging in pediatric neurology. In patients with temporal lobe epilepsy, nuclear medicine imaging is particularly useful when magnetic resonance imaging findings are normal or its findings are discordant with electroencephalogram findings. In pediatric patients with brain tumors, nuclear medicine imaging can be clinically helpful in the diagnosis, directing biopsy, planning therapy, differentiating tumor recurrence from post-treatment sequelae, and assessment of response to therapy. Among other neurological diseases in which nuclear medicine has proved to be useful are patients with head trauma, inflammatory-infectious diseases and hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy.