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Pancreatic cystic neoplasms: Adherence to management recommendations and associated endosonographic cyst characteristics
BACKGROUND: The purpose of this study is to assess patients’ compliance to recommendations after evaluation of pancreatic cystic neoplasm (PCN) with EUS and investigate how the presence of “worrisome” characteristics including cyst's size, main pancreatic duct dilation and presence of mural nod...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9007072/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35142657 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/sjg.sjg_505_21 |
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author | Sioulas, Athanasios Spinou, Marianna Schizas, Dimitrios Megapanou, Maria Frountzas, Maximos Papadaki, Konstantina Scotiniotis, Ilias |
author_facet | Sioulas, Athanasios Spinou, Marianna Schizas, Dimitrios Megapanou, Maria Frountzas, Maximos Papadaki, Konstantina Scotiniotis, Ilias |
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description | BACKGROUND: The purpose of this study is to assess patients’ compliance to recommendations after evaluation of pancreatic cystic neoplasm (PCN) with EUS and investigate how the presence of “worrisome” characteristics including cyst's size, main pancreatic duct dilation and presence of mural nodules might affect the adherence rates of management recommendations. METHODS: We performed a retrospective cohort study of patients at a private tertiary hospital who were referred for evaluation with EUS over a 5-year period (2015-2019), after the diagnosis of pancreatic cystic neoplasm during radiological imaging. RESULTS: We included 111 patients (mean age 64.1 years, SD = 13.9) with PCN. After the EUS examination, 16 patients were referred for surgical resection, 4 patients needed no further follow up and 91 patients were recommended to follow imaging surveillance. In total, 70 (63.1%) subjects adhered to surveillance recommendations. In the group of subjects who adhered to surveillance, cyst size ≥3cm was found in 27 (38.6%) patients, main pancreatic duct diameter ≥5mm in 12 (17.1%) subjects and only 3 (4.3%) pancreatic cysts demonstrated mural nodules. However, none of the aforementioned cystic “worrisome features” was significantly correlated with increased adherence to follow up (p = 0.709, P = 0.642 and P = 0.630, respectively). CONCLUSIONS: Although the majority of patients with PCN adhered to given recommendations after EUS examination, the number of noncompliant subjects was noticeable. The presence of cystic “worrisome” features did not correlate with an increased compliance rate to suggested management plan. Further prospective studies are needed to elucidate the factors that may enhance patients’ adherence. |
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spelling | pubmed-90070722022-04-14 Pancreatic cystic neoplasms: Adherence to management recommendations and associated endosonographic cyst characteristics Sioulas, Athanasios Spinou, Marianna Schizas, Dimitrios Megapanou, Maria Frountzas, Maximos Papadaki, Konstantina Scotiniotis, Ilias Saudi J Gastroenterol Original Article BACKGROUND: The purpose of this study is to assess patients’ compliance to recommendations after evaluation of pancreatic cystic neoplasm (PCN) with EUS and investigate how the presence of “worrisome” characteristics including cyst's size, main pancreatic duct dilation and presence of mural nodules might affect the adherence rates of management recommendations. METHODS: We performed a retrospective cohort study of patients at a private tertiary hospital who were referred for evaluation with EUS over a 5-year period (2015-2019), after the diagnosis of pancreatic cystic neoplasm during radiological imaging. RESULTS: We included 111 patients (mean age 64.1 years, SD = 13.9) with PCN. After the EUS examination, 16 patients were referred for surgical resection, 4 patients needed no further follow up and 91 patients were recommended to follow imaging surveillance. In total, 70 (63.1%) subjects adhered to surveillance recommendations. In the group of subjects who adhered to surveillance, cyst size ≥3cm was found in 27 (38.6%) patients, main pancreatic duct diameter ≥5mm in 12 (17.1%) subjects and only 3 (4.3%) pancreatic cysts demonstrated mural nodules. However, none of the aforementioned cystic “worrisome features” was significantly correlated with increased adherence to follow up (p = 0.709, P = 0.642 and P = 0.630, respectively). CONCLUSIONS: Although the majority of patients with PCN adhered to given recommendations after EUS examination, the number of noncompliant subjects was noticeable. The presence of cystic “worrisome” features did not correlate with an increased compliance rate to suggested management plan. Further prospective studies are needed to elucidate the factors that may enhance patients’ adherence. Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2022-02-07 /pmc/articles/PMC9007072/ /pubmed/35142657 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/sjg.sjg_505_21 Text en Copyright: © 2022 Saudi Journal of Gastroenterology https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms. |
spellingShingle | Original Article Sioulas, Athanasios Spinou, Marianna Schizas, Dimitrios Megapanou, Maria Frountzas, Maximos Papadaki, Konstantina Scotiniotis, Ilias Pancreatic cystic neoplasms: Adherence to management recommendations and associated endosonographic cyst characteristics |
title | Pancreatic cystic neoplasms: Adherence to management recommendations and associated endosonographic cyst characteristics |
title_full | Pancreatic cystic neoplasms: Adherence to management recommendations and associated endosonographic cyst characteristics |
title_fullStr | Pancreatic cystic neoplasms: Adherence to management recommendations and associated endosonographic cyst characteristics |
title_full_unstemmed | Pancreatic cystic neoplasms: Adherence to management recommendations and associated endosonographic cyst characteristics |
title_short | Pancreatic cystic neoplasms: Adherence to management recommendations and associated endosonographic cyst characteristics |
title_sort | pancreatic cystic neoplasms: adherence to management recommendations and associated endosonographic cyst characteristics |
topic | Original Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9007072/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35142657 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/sjg.sjg_505_21 |
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