Main description:

This book gathers a collection of cases with challenging diagnoses, in which nuclear medicine examinations have been particularly helpful in terms of the final diagnosis or follow-up. The cases presented chiefly involve patients with neurodegenerative disorders, epilepsy and brain tumors. The book is intended for nuclear medicine specialists as well as clinicians, offering essential guidance on the interpretation of neurology cases in the clinical setting, particularly with regard to correctly interpreting diagnostic imaging procedures. The authors were selected from the members of the Neuroimaging Committee of the EANM and have extensive experience as clinicians and teachers within the Nuclear Medicine Community.

Contents:

SECTION I - Nuclear Medicine cases of dementia and movement disorders.- Case 1: Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) - [18F]FDG and amyloid PET.- Case 2: Alzheimers disease - [18F]FDG, tau and amyloid PET.- Case 3: Alzheimers disease - Behavioural variant.- Case 4: Parkinsons disease with onset as MCI.- Case 5: Parkinsons disease with vascular abnormalities.- Case 6: Parkinsons disease with left-side spasticity.- Case 7: Holmes tremor.- Case 8: Multiple system atrophy with DAT SPECT and [18F]FDG PET.- Case 9: Progressive supranuclear palsy: Richardson syndrome and Parkinsonian variants.- Case 10: Progressive supranuclear palsy.- Case 11: Corticobasal syndrome - [18F]FDG and amyloid PET.- Case 12: Huntingtons disease with atypical onset.- Case 13: Huntingtons disease with psychiatric onset.- Case 14: Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease with pathological confirmation.- SECTION II - Nuclear Medicine cases of epilepsy and encephalitis. Case 15: Temporal lobe epilepsy.- Case 16: Ictal imaging in partial status epilept cus.- Case 17: Focal pharmacoresistant epilepsy.- Case 18: Post-surgical epilepsy.- Case 19: Thalamic hamartoma.- Case 20: Autoimmune encephalitis with unusual antibodies.- Case 21: Psychiatric presentation of anti-N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor (NMDAR) limbic encephalitis.- Case 22: Hashimoto encephalitis. SECTION III - Nuclear Medicine cases of brain tumors.- Case 23: Pseudoresponse in a case of Glioblastoma multiforme.- Case 24: Progressive Glioma.- Case 25: Isocitrate dehydrogenase (IDH) wild-type glioma.- Case 26: Post-operative meningioma.- Case 27: Meningioma with difficult delineation on MRI.- Case 28: Optic nerve sheath meningioma (ONSM).- Case 29: Primary brain lymphoma.- Case 29: Neurolymphomatosis.- Case 30: Atypical teratoid rhabdoid tumor (ATRT).- Case 31: Brain metastatis - progression/recurrence vs. radionecrosis.- Case 32: Tumefactive plaques.- SECTION IV - PET/MRI and challenging cases.- Case 33: Typical AD with discordant biomarkers.- Case 34: Fronto-temporal dementia, behavioural variant, mimicker.- Case 35: Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.- Case 36: Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.- Case 37: Epilepsy.- Case 38: Limbic encephalitis.