Incidental detection of intracranial tuberculomas on (99m)Tc-TRODAT-1 SPECT/CT.

Tc-TRODAT-1 has high affinity and specificity for dopamine transporters and is useful for the evaluation of presynaptic dopaminergic function, especially in parkinsonism. There have been a few reports of extrastriatal pathological accumulation of Tc-TRODAT-1. We report a patient with intracranial tuberculomas that were incidentally detected when he underwent Tc-TRODAT-1 scintigraphy for an unrelated indication.

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