There has been a significant
increase in the usage of advanced diagnostic imaging modalities, with almost
tripling the use of multi-detector computed tomography (MDCT), magnetic
resonance imaging (MRI) and magnetic resonance cholangio-pancreatography (MRCP)
in the last two decades. With this increasing use of radiology resources, there
has been an overall increase in healthcare costs.
The detection of incidental
pancreatic cysts has increased which not only is scary for the patient but also
adds anxiety to the gastroenterologist, pathologist and the radiologist. The
gamut of pancreatic cysts can span from benign to borderline malignant to
frankly malignant cysts. Accurate preoperative imaging diagnosis
of these pancreatic cystic lesions is essential so as to reduce unnecessary
intervention, healthcare costs and also guide the clinician and the patient for
follow-up imaging if required.
We made a literature review of
articles published in English language using PubMed-library database search
between the time periods January 2010 to April 2016. The following individual
and combined keywords were used: cystic, lesions, tumours, pancreas, imaging,
radiology. We also reviewed the citations of the references obtained from the
articles. From a total of 139 articles, only 98 related articles were selected.
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