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 ...

Cysts, often referred to as 'water nodules', ... The cytology determines the presence of atypical cells in the hemorrhagic contents and determines the presence of malignant cells in the 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 ...

In a potential step forward for early pancreatic cancer diagnosis, a miniaturized brush was successfully tested as a possible technique for loosening cells from the walls of pancreatic cysts.