Decision making for pancreatic resection in patients with intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasms

Figure 2 The predictors of malignant intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasms. Receiver operating characteristic analysis showed that γ-GT > 50 U/L, alkaline phosphatase (ALP) > 115 U/L or carbohydrate antigen 19-9 (CA19-9) > 37 U/mL effectively predicted malignant intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasms. However, the area under the curve for CA19-9 > 37 U/mL was the largest among the three indices and reached 0.939 (P < 0.01, 95%CI: 0.843-1.035).