First case of 18F-choline uptake in acoustic schwannoma after stereotactic radiotherapy

Demetrio Arico; Claudio Giardina; Carmelo Tuscano; Antonio Picone; Vincenzo Militano

doi:10.4103/wjnm.wjnm_26_18

World Journal of Nuclear Medicine, Table of Contents

CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 · World J Nucl Med 2019; 18(02): 187-188
DOI: 10.4103/wjnm.wjnm_26_18

Case Report

First case of ¹⁸F-choline uptake in acoustic schwannoma after stereotactic radiotherapy

Demetrio Arico

¹Department of Nuclear Medicine, Humanitas Oncological Centre of Catania, Catania

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Claudio Giardina

²Department of Radiology, ASP of Messina–Hospital of Taormina, (ME)

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Carmelo Tuscano

³Department of Radiotherapy, Great Metropolitan Hospital, “Bianchi Melacrino-Morelli”, Reggio Calabria, Italy

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Antonio Picone

⁴Department of Oncology, Humanitas Oncological Centre of Catania, Catania

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Vincenzo Militano

⁵Department of Nuclear Medicine, University College of London Hospital, London, United Kingdom

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Abstract

A 69-year-old male patient, with bilateral hypoacusia and tinnitus, had a diagnosis of left vestibular schwannoma with synchronous meningioma on the left frontal lobe. After partial surgical resection of the acoustic schwannoma, this was followed by stereotactic radiosurgery on the residual lesion. The patient had a metachronous prostate cancer treated with conformal radiotherapy associated to 6 months of hormone therapy with luteinizing hormone/releasing hormone analog. During follow-up, prostate-specific antigen value increased to 0.27 ng/mL and the patient underwent 18F-methylcholine positron emission tomography/computed tomography (18F-choline PET/CT). The whole-body scan demonstrated a focus of increased uptake at level of the left cerebellopontine angle and at the left frontal lobe, corresponding to the known vestibular schwannoma and meningioma. A subsequent brain contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) showed an increased dimension of the left cerebellopontine neuroma and dimensional stability of the left frontal meningioma compared with previous MRI of 6 months earlier. To the best of our knowledge, we describe the first case of a 18F-choline PET/CT demonstrating a relapse of a vestibular schwannoma after stereotactic radiotherapy.

Keywords

18F-Choline - positron emission tomography/computed tomography - schwannoma

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