From the Department of Nuclear Medicine, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College Hospital; and Beijing Key Laboratory of Molecular Targeted Diagnosis and Therapy in Nuclear Medicine, Beijing, China.
Clin Nucl Med. 2020 Sep;45(9):722-724. doi: 10.1097/RLU.0000000000003090.
A 55-year-old man and a 52-year-old man presenting with neurological symptoms were referred for F-FDG PET/CT for the underlying malignancy. In both cases, extensive intraspinal hypermetabolism was observed in F-FDG PET/CT. The cerebrospinal fluid culture finally confirmed infection of Brucella. This report illustrates that neurobrucellosis may present as intraspinal hypermetabolism on F-FDG PET/CT, and thus it should be added to the differential diagnosis.
两位出现神经症状的 55 岁男性和 52 岁男性,因潜在恶性肿瘤被转诊行 F-FDG PET/CT。在这两种情况下,F-FDG PET/CT 均观察到广泛的脊髓内代谢亢进。最终,脑脊液培养证实感染了布鲁氏菌。本报告表明神经布鲁氏菌病可表现为 F-FDG PET/CT 上的脊髓内代谢亢进,因此应将其纳入鉴别诊断。