Abstract
Thick-walled gallbladder is difficult to characterize on conventional imaging. 18F-FDG PET was used to differentiate benign and malignant wall thickness and compared with histopathology. Thirty patients with gallbladder (GB) wall thickening (focal > 4mm and diffuse > 7mm), underwents uspected on ultrasound, or CT scan, andunderwent 18F-FDG PET. Histopathology of the specimen was compared with imaging findings. The mean age was 48.22 ± 31.33years with a M:F 1:4 ratio. Twenty patients had diffuse and 10 had focal thickening. On 18F-FDG PET, lesion was benign in 12, malignant in 13, and indeterminate in 5. Histopathology was malignancy in 12; benign in 18-chronic cholecystitis in 11, xanthogranulomatous in 4, IgG4 related in 2, and polyp in 1. The mean GB wall thickness was 7.79 ± 3.59mm (10.34 malignant and 6.10 in benign, p = 0.001). At a cutoff of 8.5mm, the sensitivity and specificity of detecting malignancy was 94% and 67%. The mean SUV uptake was 7.46 (benign 4.51, malignant 14.26, p = 0.0102). At a cutoff of 5.95, the sensitivity and specificity of detecting malignancy was 92% and 79%. For 18F-FDG PET, overall sensitivity was 91%, specificity 79%, PPV 77%, NPV 92%, and diagnostic accuracy was 84%. 18F-FDG PET is a reliable method of differentiation between benign and malignant thickening of the gallbladder particularly when wall thickness and SUV value is taken into account.
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