Recurrent tumor vs radiation effects after Gamma Knife radiosurgery of intracerebral metastases: Diagnosis with PET-FDG
- Karolinska Hospital, Stockholm (Sweden)
Our objective was to differentiate radiation effects from tumor progression in metastases stereotaxically irradiated with the multicobalt unit (Gamma Knife). Eleven patients with stereotaxically irradiated cerebral metastases were examined with PET using [{sup 18}F]fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) to differentiate recurrent tumor from radiation effects. Six patients had increased uptake of FDG, and clinical, radiological, and pathological findings confirmed the diagnosis of recurrent metastases. These patients had an unfavorable prognosis and were all dead within 54 weeks after radiosurgery. Five patients had lesions without an increased accumulation of FDG. Four of these patients were alive after a total follow-up of 1.7 years, while one patient died of a peptic ulcer 56 weeks after radiosurgery. Positron emission tomography with FDG was of obvious prognostic value in this small series of patients and was clearly superior to CT and MR in the distinction between tumor recurrence and radiation effects (verified necrosis in one case). 24 refs., 2 figs., 2 tabs.
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE
- OSTI ID:
- 539146
- Journal Information:
- Journal of Computer Assisted Tomography, Vol. 18, Issue 2; Other Information: PBD: Mar-Apr 1994
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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