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Evaluation of single-photon emission tomography imaging of supratentorial brain gliomas with technetium-99m sestamibi

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Single-photon emission tomography (SPET) with technetium-99m sestamibi (MIBI) was carried out in 61 adult patients with supratentorial expanding brain lesions. Thirty-one patients had pathologically proven malignant glioma. Ten patients had pathologically proven low-grade glioma, while another 12 patients had a clinical diagnosis of low-grade glioma. The other eight patients had a variety of lesions including radiation necrosis (3), abscess (2), ischaemic stroke (2) and primary brain lymphoma (1). SPET was performed 15 min after administration of 740–930 MBq MIBI and transverse, sagittal and coronal views were reconstructed. Using computed tomography or magnetic resonance imaging guidance, a MIBI uptake index was computed as the ratio of counts in the lesion to counts in the contralateral homologous region. In high-grade gliomas, the MIBI index ranged from 1.9 to 6.6 (mean 3.6 ± 1.4) whereas it ranged from 0.8 to 1.7 (1.1 ± 0.2) in the pathologically proven low-grade group (P < 0.01). No significant difference was found between the two low-grade groups (1.1 ± 0.2 vs 1.1 ± 0.2). No overlap was found between high-grade and low-grade glioma index values. Patients with suspected radiation necrosis, cerebral abscess or ischaemic stroke did not demonstrate high MIBI uptake (0.9–2.2), whereas one patient with brain lymphoma did (3.9). This study suggests that MIBI SPET imaging is of value in distinguishing low-from high-grade supratentorial gliomas in adults.

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    Georges Baillet

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    Luisa Albuquerque, Qiming Chen, Michel Poisson & Jean-Yves Delattre

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Baillet, G., Albuquerque, L., Chen, Q. et al. Evaluation of single-photon emission tomography imaging of supratentorial brain gliomas with technetium-99m sestamibi. Eur J Nucl Med 21, 1061–1066 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00181060

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