Ogasawara K, Beppu T, Yasuda S, Kobayashi M, Yukawa H, Ogawa A
Department of Neurosurgery and Cyclotron Research Center, Iwate Medical University, Morioka, Japan.
J Neurooncol. 2001 Oct;55(1):59-61. doi: 10.1023/a:1012953800208.
We evaluated blood flow and oxygen metabolism in a patient with Lhermitte-Duclos disease using brain positron emission tomography. The lesion showed increased blood flow, reduced oxygen extraction fraction and normal metabolic rates of oxygen. These findings suggest that lesions of Lhermitte-Duclos disease may constitute hamartoma or hypertrophy rather than neoplasm.
