Abstract
A 3-year-old boy presented with a rare case of spinal cord pilocytic astrocytoma. Total removal of the spinal cord tumor was impossible and chemotherapy was chosen for adjunctive therapy. He was given a craniotomy, temozolomide, and chemotherapy. Despite high overall response rates to chemotherapy in low-grade astrocytomas, MRI showed no significant tumor regression. An F-18 FDG PET/CT to evaluate treatment response showed an elongated hypermetabolic spinal cord tumor from C1 to T7. Intense FDG uptake indicated a significant residual pilocytic astrocytoma. Because of his poor response to chemotherapy, the patient was referred for radiotherapy.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 649-650 |
| Number of pages | 2 |
| Journal | Clinical Nuclear Medicine |
| Volume | 35 |
| Issue number | 8 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2010 Aug |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging