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SUBMITTER: Tateishi K
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7436956 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Tateishi Kensuke K Ikegaya Naoki N Udaka Naoko N Sasame Jo J Hayashi Takahiro T Miyake Yohei Y Okabe Tetsuhiko T Minamimoto Ryogo R Murata Hidetoshi H Utsunomiya Daisuke D Yamanaka Shoji S Yamamoto Tetsuya T
Acta neuropathologica communications 20200818 1
We present a case of a 14-year old boy with tumor-associated refractory epilepsy. Positron emission tomography imaging demonstrated a region with heterogeneous high <sup>11</sup>C-methionine uptake and a region with homogenous low <sup>18</sup>F-fluorodeoxyglucose uptake within the tumor. Histopathological and genomic analyses confirmed the tumor as BRAF V600E-mutated polymorphous low-grade neuroepithelial tumor of the young (PLNTY). Within the high-methionine-uptake region, we observed increase ...[more]