Pancreatic carcinoma coexisting with chronic pancreatitis versus tumor-forming pancreatitis: Diagnostic utility of the time-signal intensity curve from dynamic contrast-enhanced MR imaging

Table 2 Clinicopathological characteristics and pancreatic TIC profiles in patients with focal pancreatic mass due to chronic pancreatitis

			Location		Underlying		Type of pancreatic TIC of			Histopathology of
Case			of focal	Preoperative	chronic	Operative	proximal	focal	distal	proximal	focal	distal
No.	Age	Sex	mass	diagnosis	pancreatitis	procedure	pancreas	mass	pancreas	pancreas	mass	pancreas
1	70	M	Ph	TF-pancreatitis1	Yes	PPPD	II	II	II	CP	CP	CP
2	55	M	Pb	TF-pancreatitis	Yes	MP	II	II	II	CP	CP	CP
3	62	M	Ph	TF-pancreatitis	Yes	PPPD	II	II	III	CP	CP	CP
4	47	M	Pb	TF-pancreatitis	Yes	DP	II	II	III	CP	CP	CP
5	63	M	Ph	TF-pancreatitis1	Yes	PPPD	III	III	II	CP	CP	CP
6	45	F	Pb	TF-pancreatitis	Yes	DP	III	III	III	CP	CP	CP
7	60	M	Pt	TF-pancreatitis	No	DP	I	II	II	Normal	CP	CP
8	51	F	Pt	TF-pancreatitis	No	DP	I	III	III	Normal	CP	CP

TIC: time-signal intensity curve; Ph: pancreatic head, Pb: pancreatic body, Pt: pancreatic tail; TF: tumor-forming; PPPD: pylorus-preserving pancreaticoduodenectomy; MP: middle pancreatectomy; DP: distal pancreatectomy; CP: chronic pancreatitis;

¹Suspicious of carcinoma.