Intense FDG activity in a case of xanthogranulomatous cholecystitis without elevated fluorothymidine activity.

Kuruva Manohar, Bhagwant Rai Mittal, Anish Bhattacharya, Bishan Dass Radotra, Ganga Ram Verma

Department of Nuclear Medicine and PET, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India.

Clinical nuclear medicine 2013 Apr

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F-FDG PET/CT is a useful imaging modality to detect malignant gall bladder lesions. We present an image of a patient with a gall bladder mass that was found to be FDG avid but negative on F-fluorothymidine PET/CT imaging. This was later confirmed to be a case of xanthogranulomatous cholecystitis.

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Kuruva Manohar, Bhagwant Rai Mittal, Anish Bhattacharya, Bishan Dass Radotra, Ganga Ram Verma. Intense FDG activity in a case of xanthogranulomatous cholecystitis without elevated fluorothymidine activity. Clinical nuclear medicine. 2013 Apr;38(4):e205-6