FDG PET and MRI Findings in a Case of Bing-Neel Syndrome

Clin Nucl Med. 2018 Apr;43(4):262-264. doi: 10.1097/RLU.0000000000002019.

Abstract

A 64-year-old man was admitted for expressive aphasia with lack of words. He had been diagnosed with Waldenström 4 years before. At that time, he received 6 cycles of single-agent fludarabine, and remission was obtained. Because of acute expressive aphasia, he underwent brain MRI, which showed frontoparietal and insular subcortical gadolinium enhancement; Bing-Neel syndrome was suspected. Fronto-temporo-insular hypometabolism and left parietal hypometabolism were highlighted on FDG PET/CT. Structural and functional brain imaging revealed impairment of brain areas due to white matter changes and reinforced the diagnosis.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Brain / diagnostic imaging
  • Fluorodeoxyglucose F18*
  • Humans
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging*
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Nervous System Diseases / diagnostic imaging*
  • Nervous System Diseases / drug therapy
  • Positron Emission Tomography Computed Tomography*
  • Vidarabine / analogs & derivatives

Substances

  • Fluorodeoxyglucose F18
  • Vidarabine
  • fludarabine