Pancreatic cancer screening in patients with presumed branch-duct intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasms

Table 1 Previous studies on prevalence of incidental pancreatic cysts

Article	Country	Design	Method of detection	Population	Prevalence, %
Kimura et al[14], 1995	Japan	Retrospective	Autopsy	300 consecutive autopsies in an elderly population	24.3
Zhang et al[20], 2002	United States	Retrospective	1.5 T MRI	1444 patients who underwent a MRI, including 323 patients performed for pancreatic or biliary indication	19.6
Laffan et al[17], 2008	United States	Retrospective	16-MDCT	2832 16-MDCT performed for nonpancreatic indication	2.6
Lee et al[21], 2010	United States	Retrospective	1.5 T MRI	616 MRI performed for nonpancreatic indication	13.5
Girometti et al[16], 2011	Italy	Retrospective	1.5 T MRI	152 MRI performed for nonpancreatic indication	44.7
Ip et al[18], 2011	United States	Retrospective	CT or MRI*	17443 patients who underwent a CT and 2700 patients who underwent a MRI	CT 2.2, MRI 15.9
Matsubara et al[22], 2012	Japan	Retrospective	1.5 T MRI	1226 MRI performed for nonpancreatic indication	10
Sey et al[23], 2015	United States	Prospective	EUS	341 EUS performed for nonpancreatic indication	9.4
Soroida et al[19], 2016	Japan	Retrospective	US	5198 US performed as part of a general health examination	3.5
Moris et al[10], 2016	United States	Retrospective	1.5 T or 3 T MRI	500 MRI performed for nonpancreatic indication	41.6
Martínez et al[24], 2018	Spain	Prospective	EUS	298 EUS performed for nonpancreatic indication	21.5

*There is no description of the MRI instrument model. CT: Computed tomography; EUS: Endoscopic ultrasonography; MRI: Magnetic resonance imaging; PDAC: Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma; US: Ultrasonography.