Subdiaphragmatic gallstone mimicking hepatic malignancy on FDG PET/CT

Clin Nucl Med. 2015 Apr;40(4):347-8. doi: 10.1097/RLU.0000000000000658.

Abstract

A 70-year-old man underwent an FDG PET/CT for a possible primary liver malignancy or metastasis found on an abdominal MRI obtained as part of a workup for intermittent abdominal pain. The MRI showed an enhancing lesion at the dome of the right lobe of the liver. The lesion was FDG avid with a discrete central calcification. In conjunction with the patient's history of laparoscopic cholecystectomy 1 year prior, the findings were consistent with inflammation around a migrated subdiaphragmatic gallstone. One month after the scan, a CT-guided percutaneous biopsy of this lesion revealed chronic inflammatory cells with no evidence of malignancy.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Aged
  • Carcinoma / diagnostic imaging*
  • False Positive Reactions
  • Fluorodeoxyglucose F18
  • Gallstones / diagnostic imaging*
  • Humans
  • Liver Neoplasms / diagnostic imaging*
  • Male
  • Multimodal Imaging*
  • Positron-Emission Tomography*
  • Radiopharmaceuticals
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed*

Substances

  • Radiopharmaceuticals
  • Fluorodeoxyglucose F18