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Neuroimaging in Infantile Autism

Department of Radiology

John M. Hoffman, MD

Department of Radiology, Division of Neurology, Department of Medicine

H. Paul Hatten, JR, MD

Department of Radiology

Michael W. Hanson, MD

Department of Radiology

R. Edward Coleman, MD

Department of Radiology

G. Robert DeLong, MD

Division of Neurology, Department of Pediatrics, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC

Metabolic findings using [¹⁸F]fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) with positron emission tomography (PET) and correlative anatomic findings with computed tomography (CT) or magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) were characterized in 13 children with infantile autism. Four of 13 patients had both an abnormal FDG-PET and an abnormal MRI, whereas seven of 13 patients had both a normal FDG-PET and a normal CT or MRI. Sixteen of a total of 195 brain areas qualitatively examined with FDG-PET had a hypometabolic abnormality on PET. Three of the five abnormal structural imaging studies revealed neuronal migrational anomalies (focal pachygyria). In two of the five patients with anatomic abnormalities, these were noted only after knowledge of the FDG-PET findings. Our experience reveals that anatomic and metabolic abnormalities can be found in children who exhibit autistic behavior. An FDG-PET study may provide evidence of metabolic dysfunction after an initially unremarkable MRI scan because subtle anatomic abnormalities (as those seen with neuronal migrational anomalies) may be found only after knowledge of a regional metabolic abnormality. (J Child Neurol 1994;9:155-161).

Journal of Child Neurology, Vol. 9, No. 2, 155-161 (1994)
DOI: 10.1177/088307389400900210


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