• Medicine
• Published in Clinical nuclear medicine 2004
• DOI:10.1097/00003072-200410000-00004

FDG-PET findings in patients with suspected encephalitis.

@article{Lee2004FDGPETFI,
  title={FDG-PET findings in patients with suspected encephalitis.},
  author={Bruce Y Lee and Andrew B Newberg and David S. Liebeskind and Justin W. Kung and Abass Alavi},
  journal={Clinical nuclear medicine},
  year={2004},
  volume={29 10},
  pages={
          620-5
        }
}

• Bruce Y Lee, Andrew B Newberg, +2 authors Abass Alavi

PURPOSE Fluorine-18 fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography (FDG-PET) may be used to establish a diagnosis of encephalitis, yet prior descriptions are mainly limited to small case reports. We explore the role of FDG-PET in the diagnostic evaluation of encephalitis. METHODS Brain FDG-PET was acquired in a consecutive case series of 10 cases of suspected encephalitis over a 5-year-period. Cases with positive Lyme serology were excluded. Two expert reviewers graded the FDG-PET studies in… CONTINUE READING

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