Open AccessUnilateral thalamic hypometabolism on FDG brain PET in patient with temporal lobe epilepsy
Author(s) -
Sait Sağer,
Sertaç Asa,
Lebriz Uslu,
Metin Halaç
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
indian journal of nuclear medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.261
H-Index - 13
eISSN - 0972-3919
pISSN - 0974-0244
DOI - 10.4103/0972-3919.90260
Subject(s) - medicine , ictal , thalamus , temporal lobe , epilepsy , positron emission tomography , fluorodeoxyglucose , cortex (anatomy) , nuclear medicine , neuroscience , radiology , psychology , psychiatry
Interictal Brain F-18 fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) Positron Emission Tomography (PET) imaging has been widely used for localizing the focus of a seizure. Hypometabolism in the extratemporal cortex on FDG-PET study is an important finding to localize seizure focus, which might be seen as ipsilateral, contralateral or bilateral thalamus hypometabolism in epileptic patients. In this case report, it is aimed to show ipsilateral thalamus hypomethabolism on FDG PET brain study of a 24-year-old male patient with temporal lobe epilepsy.