Endoscopic diagnosis and treatment of pancreatic cystic lesions / 临床肝胆病杂志

ABSTRACT

The diagnostic rate of pancreatic cystic lesions (PCLs) is increasing year by year with the development of radiological techniques. PCLs are a group of heterogeneous diseases, mainly including intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasms, mucinous cystic neoplasm, serous cystic neoplasm, and other rare cystic lesions, and different types of pancreatic cystic neoplasms have different biological behaviors and rates of malignant transformation. A precise diagnosis of patients with pancreatic cystic neoplasms helps to select surgical treatment for some patients and perform follow-up observation for other patients. Endoscopic ultrasound and endoscopic ultrasound-guided fine-needle aspiration play an important role in the diagnosis and differential diagnosis of PCLs. Endoscopic ultrasound-guided ablation therapy for PCLs is still in the early stage although it has been performed for more than a decade; however, it is safe and effective and can be used as an substitutive therapy for surgical operation, and therefore, it holds promise for clinical application.