Surgical treatment of incidentally identified pancreatic masses.

Timothy L. Fitzgerald, Andrew J. Smith, Max Ryan, Mostafa Atri, Frances C. Wright, Calvin Law, Sherif S. Hanna

PubMed · 2003 · 41 citations · 31 references

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Abstract

Our findings suggest that preoperative imaging does not always predict the surgical histologic type of pancreatic incidentalomas. Unless the diagnosis of serous cystadenoma is certain, surgical resection should be considered in low-risk patients in whom pancreatic masses are found incidentally.

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