Cortex on Fire: Infarct Mimicking Ictal.

Clin Nucl MedMay 28, 2026 (epub)

Hala Jasim, Alex Heglin, Orhan K Öz et al.

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A 65-year-old woman with treated small cell lung cancer presenting with recurrent stroke-like symptoms and seizures underwent FDG PET/CT and MRI. Brain MRI revealed diffusion restriction. Subsequent 18 F-FDG PET/CT demonstrated an unusual metabolic signature: intense left frontoparietal cortical uptake ("cortex on fire") with discordant ipsilateral thalamic and contralateral…

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