Brain 123I-FP-CIT SPECT of a Holmes Tremor Due to Midbrain Pilocytic Astrocytoma

Clin Nucl Med. 2020 Jan;45(1):e46-e47. doi: 10.1097/RLU.0000000000002729.

Abstract

A 24-year-old woman with an unresectable right mesencephalic pilocytic astrocytoma was treated with stereotaxic radiation therapy. Three months after a radiation therapy-induced bleeding, she presented a severe disabling low frequency rest and kinetic tremor involving the left upper limb, associated with dystonia, and a Holmes tremor was suspected. Thereby, we performed a I-FP-CIT SPECT (DATSCAN) that revealed a normal distribution of radiotracer over the left striatum, whereas no binding was seen in the right caudate and putamen. This pattern was consistent with a right severe nigrostriatal dopaminergic denervation due to an ipsilateral red nucleus injury.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Astrocytoma / complications*
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Mesencephalon / diagnostic imaging*
  • Mesencephalon / pathology*
  • Tomography, Emission-Computed, Single-Photon*
  • Tremor / diagnostic imaging*
  • Tremor / etiology*
  • Tremor / pathology
  • Tropanes*
  • Young Adult

Substances

  • Tropanes
  • 2-carbomethoxy-8-(3-fluoropropyl)-3-(4-iodophenyl)tropane