A 59 year old patient was referred to our department to detect disease activity related to clinical symptoms of tiredness, weight loss and an elevated serum serotonine, suspicious of a neuro-endocrine tumour. A 18F-fluoro-l-dihydroxy-phenylalanine (FDOPA) PET/CT scan was performed, which showed focally increased uptake in the terminal ileum and in a mesenterial lymph node. Additionally, an area of intense uptake was observed intracranially. Histological analysis confirmed the presence of a WHO grade I meningioma. Few cases of FDOPA PET uptake in meningiomas have been published, underlining it is as a rare finding. Awareness of this potential finding is crucial to avoid misinterpretation as intracerebral metastasis.
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Stormezand, G. N., Glaudemans, A. W. J. M., Slart, R. H. J. A., & Dierckx, R. A. J. O. (2018). Incidental meningioma detected with [18F]-FDOPA PET/CT. European Journal of Hybrid Imaging, 2(1). https://doi.org/10.1186/s41824-018-0041-3
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