Usefulness of septal thickness measurement on endoscopic ultrasound as a predictor of malignancy of branched‐duct and mixed‐type intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasm of the pancreas

Abstract

Septal thickness was an independent predictive factor similar to MN height for malignant IPMN in a multivariate analysis. The ST on EUS appeared to be the thickness of a fibrotic septum associated with the malignant transformation of IPMN. An ST cut-off value of 2.5 mm might provide an accurate prediction of malignant IPMN.