title: Gallbladder carcinoma metastasizing to adrenal gland: a rare site demonstrated with (18)F-FDG PET/CT.
abstract: Adrenal metastases have commonly been reported in a wide variety of cancers but not in gallbladder cancer. We here present a case of a 45-year-old male patient with gallbladder carcinoma where left adrenal metastasis was detected on staging F-FDG PET/CT. This was confirmed histopathologically. F-FDG PET/CT can have a significant impact on management of patients with gallbladder carcinoma by demonstrating rare sites of metastasis.
authors.affiliation: From the Department of Nuclear Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India.
authors.forename: Manas Kumar
authors.initials: MK
authors.lastname: Sahoo
authors.forename: Punit
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Sharma
authors.forename: Sudhir
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Suman
authors.forename: Tarun Kumar
authors.initials: TK
authors.lastname: Jain
authors.forename: Chandrasekhar
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Bal
authors.forename: Rakesh
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Kumar
mesh_terms: D000310:Adrenal Gland Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000556:secondary*; D019788:Fluorodeoxyglucose F18; D005706:Gallbladder Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D064847:Multimodal Imaging; D049268:Positron-Emission Tomography; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed
chemical_list: D019788:Fluorodeoxyglucose F18