title: CT of gallbladder cancer and its mimics: a pattern-based approach.
abstract: On computed tomography (CT), gallbladder pathology may be detected incidentally or as the etiology of symptoms that prompted imaging. Accurate pathologic diagnosis can be challenging, however, due to overlapping appearances of malignant and benign gallbladder disease. This pictorial essay takes a pattern-based approach to CT of the gallbladder, to help the radiologist formulate the proper differential diagnosis.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, Johns Hopkins Hospital, 601 N Caroline Street, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA.
authors.forename: Swati D
authors.initials: SD
authors.lastname: Deshmukh
authors.forename: Pamela T
authors.initials: PT
authors.lastname: Johnson
authors.forename: Sheila
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Sheth
authors.forename: Ralph
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Hruban
authors.forename: Elliot K
authors.initials: EK
authors.lastname: Fishman
mesh_terms: D000230:Adenocarcinoma / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology; D002764:Cholecystitis / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery; D005704:Gallbladder / Q000473:pathology; D005706:Gallbladder Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D061330:Multidetector Computed Tomography; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed / Q000379:methods; D014463:Ultrasonography