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F-18 FDG PET Findings for Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada Disease

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Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada disease is a rare multisystemic granulomatous autoimmune disorder affecting pigmented tissues such as the choroid, meninges, inner ear, and the skin. Neurologic symptoms are usually mild. Clinical manifestations include generalized muscle weakness, headache, meningismus, vertigo, decreased visual acuity, hearing loss and mental changes ranging from mild confusion to psychosis, hemiparesis, dysarthria, and aphasia. Seizures are very rare. We describe a case of 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose (F-18 FDG) positron emission tomography (PET) and software-fused PET-magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada disease with seizure.

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  1. Department of Radiology, Seoul St. Mary’s Hospital, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, 222, Banpo-daero, Seocho-gu, Seoul, 06591, Korea

    Hye Lim Park, Ie Ryung Yoo & Sonya Youngju Park

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This study was performed in accordance with the regulations of our hospital’s Institutional Review Board, which approved the retrospective design and waived the requirement for informed consent. All procedures followed were in accordance with the ethical standards of the responsible committee on human experimentation and with the Helsinki Declaration of 1975, as revised in 2000.

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Park, H.L., Yoo, I.R. & Park, S.Y. F-18 FDG PET Findings for Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada Disease. Nucl Med Mol Imaging 51, 190–192 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13139-015-0384-7

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