Intrahepatic pancreatic pseudocyst: A review of the world literature

Table 2 Summary of cases (n = 54)

Mean age (range)	Gender (%)	No. of IHPP (% of cases)	Size (range)	Location (%, n)	No. of interventions (%, n)1	Intervention(%, n)2	Infection(%, n)3
49 (15-76) yr	Male (80%)	1 (67)	9.5 (3-18) cm	Right lobe (11%, 6)	0 (9%, 4)	Operative (25%, 15)	Culture positive (16%, 5)
		2 (15)		Left lobe (48%, 26)	1 (60%, 27)	Simple aspiration (28%, 17)
	Female (20%)	3 (13)		Right and left lobes (17%, 9)	2 (24%, 11)	Percutaneous drainage (28%, 17)	Culture negative (84%, 27)
		4 (4)		Unavailable (24%, 13)	3 (7%, 3)	Endoscopic (8%, 5)

¹Excludes three cases lacking mention of an intervention, and two cases with non-IHPP interventions;

²Accounts for total number of interventions performed on patient population; some patients underwent several interventions. Does not include those patients who underwent nasopancreatic drainage (5%, 3) or medical intervention (5%, 3);

³Excludes 15 reports which did not make mention of culture status. IHPP: Intrahepatic pancreatic pseudocysts.