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World J Gastroenterol. Oct 7, 2022; 28(37): 5469-5482
Published online Oct 7, 2022. doi: 10.3748/wjg.v28.i37.5469
Published online Oct 7, 2022. doi: 10.3748/wjg.v28.i37.5469
Online calculator for predicting the risk of malignancy in patients with pancreatic cystic neoplasms: A multicenter, retrospective study
Dong Jiang, Zi-Xiang Chen, Fu-Xiao Ma, Yu-Yong Gong, Tian Pu, Jiang-Ming Chen, Xue-Qian Liu, Yi-Jun Zhao, Kun Xie, Xiao-Ping Geng, Fu-Bao Liu, Department of General Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei 230000, Anhui Province, China
Hui Hou, Department of General Surgery, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei 230000, Anhui Province, China
Cheng Wang, Department of General Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230000, Anhui Province, China
Author contributions: Jiang D, Chen JM, Chen ZX and Ma FX contributed to the data analysis and participated in drafting the article; Liu XQ, Gong YY, and Pu T extracted the clinical data and calculated the clinical correlations; Xie K and Zhao YJ interpreted the results and revised the manuscript; Liu FB, Hou H, Wang C and Geng XP gave final approval of the version to be published; All authors contributed to the design and interpretation of the study and to further drafts and approved the final version to be published.
Supported by University Natural Science Research Project of Anhui Province , No. KJ2021ZD0021 .
Institutional review board statement: The study was reviewed and approved by the Institutional ethics committees of the First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University (Approval Quick-PJ2022-06-26).
Informed consent statement: All study participants or their legal guardian provided informed written consent prior to study enrollment.
Conflict-of-interest statement: All the authors report no relevant conflicts of interest for this article.
Data sharing statement: No additional data are available.
Open-Access: This article is an open-access article that was selected by an in-house editor and fully peer-reviewed by external reviewers. It is distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: https://creativecommons.org/Licenses/by-nc/4.0/
Corresponding author: Fu-Bao Liu, MD, PhD, Chief Doctor, Professor, Department of General Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, No. 81 Meishan Road, Hefei 230000, Anhui Province, China. lancetlfb@126.com
Received: June 16, 2022
Peer-review started: June 16, 2022
First decision: July 12, 2022
Revised: July 25, 2022
Accepted: September 8, 2022
Article in press: September 8, 2022
Published online: October 7, 2022
Processing time: 105 Days and 7.7 Hours
Peer-review started: June 16, 2022
First decision: July 12, 2022
Revised: July 25, 2022
Accepted: September 8, 2022
Article in press: September 8, 2022
Published online: October 7, 2022
Processing time: 105 Days and 7.7 Hours
Core Tip
Core Tip: A nomogram-based online calculator for predicting the risk of malignancy in patients with pancreatic cystic neoplasms was developed. The calculator demonstrates optimal predictive performance for identifying the risk of malignancy, potentially yielding a personalized method for patient selection and decision-making in clinical practice.