Hypertrophic Olivary Degeneration: Deafferentation With a Difference on FDG PET/CT

Chandrasekaran Ganapathy; Madhavi Tripathi; Deula D'Cruz; Rakesh Lodha; Atin Kumar; Saumya Pandey; C S Bal

doi:10.1097/RLU.0000000000005499

Hypertrophic Olivary Degeneration: Deafferentation With a Difference on FDG PET/CT

Clin Nucl Med. 2025 Mar 1;50(3):e154-e155. doi: 10.1097/RLU.0000000000005499. Epub 2024 Oct 10.

Authors

Chandrasekaran Ganapathy¹, Madhavi Tripathi¹, Deula D'Cruz², Rakesh Lodha², Atin Kumar³, Saumya Pandey³, C S Bal¹

Affiliations

¹ From the Department of Nuclear Medicine.
² Department of Paediatrics.
³ Department of Radiodiagnosis, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India.

PMID: 39385392
DOI: 10.1097/RLU.0000000000005499

Abstract

We present a case of 12-year-old boy evaluated in view of refractory ascites in whom 18 F-FDG PET/CT incidentally revealed hypermetabolism in the medulla that was proven to be hypertrophic olivary degeneration on MRI.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Child
Fluorodeoxyglucose F18*
Humans
Hypertrophy
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Male
Olivary Degeneration
Olivary Nucleus* / diagnostic imaging
Olivary Nucleus* / pathology
Positron Emission Tomography Computed Tomography*
Positron-Emission Tomography*

Substances

Fluorodeoxyglucose F18