Clinical impact of whole body FDG-PET for recurrent biliary cancer: a multicenter study

Abstract

FDG-PET/CT or PET with CT yielded helpful information in patients with suspected recurrent biliary cancer.

The role of PET scans in the management of Cholangiocarcinoma and Gallbladder Cancer: A systematic review for surgeons

“…The literature search yielded 12 papers [6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17] for inclusion in the study as outlined in the PRISMA statement of search results (see Figure 1). The study characteristics for all included papers are summarised in Table 1 and the results as they pertain to the four clinical questions driving this review are summarized in Table 2.…”

“…The study characteristics for all included papers are summarised in Table 1 and the results as they pertain to the four clinical questions driving this review are summarized in Table 2. [6] 2009 32 Pro GBC SQ Corvera [7] 2008 126 Retro GBC/CC (Intrahepatic/ Extrahepatic) SQ Furukawa [8] 2008 72 Retro GBC/ CC (Extrahepatic) Visual Kim [9] 2008 123 Pro CC (Intrahepatic/ Extrahepatic/ Hilar) SQ/ Visual Kitajima [10] 2009 50 Retro GBC/CC Visual Kumar [11] 2012 49 Retro GBC Visual Lee [13] 2010 99 Retro CC (Intrahepatic/ Extrahepatic SQ/ Visual Lee [12] 2011 50 Retro GBC/CC (Intrahepatic/ Extrahepatic SQ/ Visual…”

“…Retro: Retrospective; Pro: Prospective; CC: Cholangiocarcinoma; GB: Gallbladder carcinoma; SQ: Semi-quantitative Table 2. Summary of study findings Question Butte [6] Corvera [7] Furukawa [8] Kim [9] Kitajima [10] Kumar [11] How effective is PET-CT in defining regional lymph node metastases CCA [12] Li [14] Ruys [15] Seo [16] Shukla [17] How …”

“…Seven studies examined the role of PET-CT in gallbladder carcinoma [7,8,10,12,17,18] though two studies [8,10] did not report their results specifically. Butte et al [6] investigated 32 patients with incidental gallbladder carcinoma following laparoscopic cholecystectomy.…”

“…There were nine studies [7][8][9][10][12][13][14][15][16] which evaluated the role of PET-CT in cholangiocarcinoma. Two studies reported their results as 'biliary' cancer with no further detail [8,13] .…”