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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]; Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Fahimeh Shojaei, M.D.

Overview

PET/SPECT may be helpful in the differentiation of astrocytoma grading. Finding on PET/SPECT suggestive of low grade astrocytoma is hypometabolic mass and finding on PET/SPECT suggestive of high grade astrocytoma is hypermetabolic mass.

Other Imaging Findings

PET/SPECT may be helpful in the differentiation of astrocytoma grading.

• Finding on PET/SPECT suggestive of low grade astrocytoma is hypometabolic mass.
• Finding on PET/SPECT suggestive of high grade astrocytoma is hypermetabolic mass.

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