Digestive Disease Week 2009 Fine needle aspiration cytology alone is not accurate enough to adequately assess the malignant potential of cystic pancreatic lesions, according to the results of a ...

On cytology, 44% of the cysts had squamous cells, 67% had glandular cells and 56% had atypical cells. The cysts were resected because of size ≥3 cm (89%), symptoms (44%) and/or elevated cyst ...

You have full access to this article via your institution. The study was a 2-year, blind, prospective multicenter trial in patients with pancreatic cysts of >10 mm. Patients with an increased risk ...