Neculoiu Damaris, Neculoiu Lavinia Claudia, Popa Ramona Mihaela, Manea Rosana Mihaela
Department of Radiology and Medical Imaging, Clinical Emergency County Hospital of Brașov, 500326 Brașov, Romania.
Faculty of Medicine, "Transilvania" University of Brașov, Nicolae Bălcescu 56, 500019 Brașov, Romania.
Diagnostics (Basel). 2024 Feb 22;14(5):475. doi: 10.3390/diagnostics14050475.
Gallbladder carcinoma represents the most aggressive biliary tract cancer and the sixth most common gastrointestinal malignancy. The diagnosis is a challenging clinical task due to its clinical presentation, which is often non-specific, mimicking a heterogeneous group of diseases, as well as benign processes such as complicated cholecystitis, xanthogranulomatous cholecystitis, adenomyomatosis, porcelain gallbladder or metastasis to the gallbladder (most frequently derived from melanoma, renal cell carcinoma). Risk factors include gallstones, carcinogen exposure, porcelain gallbladder, typhoid carrier state, gallbladder polyps and abnormal pancreaticobiliary ductal junction. Typical imaging features on CT or MRI reveal three major patterns: asymmetric focal or diffuse wall-thickening of the gallbladder, a solid mass that replaces the gallbladder and invades the adjacent organs or as an intraluminal enhancement mass arising predominantly from the gallbladder fundus. The tumor can spread to the liver, the adjacent internal organs and lymph nodes. Depending on the disease stage, surgical resection is the curative treatment option in early stages and adjuvant combination chemotherapy at advanced stages. The purpose of this scientific paper is to fully illustrate and evaluate, through multimodality imaging findings (CT and MRI), different presentations and imaging scenarios of gallbladder cancer in six patients and thoroughly analyze the risk factors, patterns of spread and differential diagnosis regarding each particular case.
胆囊癌是最具侵袭性的胆道癌症,也是第六大常见的胃肠道恶性肿瘤。由于其临床表现往往不具有特异性,可模仿多种不同疾病以及诸如复杂性胆囊炎、黄色肉芽肿性胆囊炎、腺肌增生症、瓷胆囊或胆囊转移瘤(最常见于黑色素瘤、肾细胞癌转移)等良性病变,因此其诊断是一项具有挑战性的临床任务。危险因素包括胆结石、致癌物暴露、瓷胆囊、伤寒带菌状态、胆囊息肉以及胰胆管异常汇合。CT或MRI上的典型影像学特征显示出三种主要模式:胆囊壁不对称性局灶性或弥漫性增厚、取代胆囊并侵犯相邻器官的实性肿块,或主要起源于胆囊底部的腔内强化肿块。肿瘤可扩散至肝脏、相邻内脏器官及淋巴结。根据疾病分期,早期阶段手术切除是治愈性治疗选择,晚期阶段则采用辅助性联合化疗。本科学论文的目的是通过多模态影像学检查结果(CT和MRI),充分阐述和评估6例胆囊癌患者的不同表现及影像学情况,并深入分析每个具体病例的危险因素、扩散模式及鉴别诊断。