Imaging benign and malignant disease of the gallbladder

Radiol Clin North Am. 2002 Dec;40(6):1307-23, vi. doi: 10.1016/s0033-8389(02)00042-8.

Abstract

This article reviews the imaging of various benign and malignant diseases of the gallbladder. Clinical findings and imaging features using ultrasound, CT, and MR for the detection and evaluation of gallstones, acute cholecystitis, xanthogranulomatous cholecystitis, adenomyomatosis, and carcinoma of the gallbladder among other disorders are discussed.

Publication types

  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Cholangiography
  • Cholecystitis / diagnosis
  • Cholelithiasis / diagnosis
  • Gallbladder / diagnostic imaging
  • Gallbladder / pathology
  • Gallbladder Diseases / diagnosis*
  • Gallbladder Diseases / diagnostic imaging
  • Gallbladder Neoplasms / diagnosis
  • Gallbladder Neoplasms / diagnostic imaging
  • Humans
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed
  • Ultrasonography