Impact of needle-based confocal laser endomicroscopy on the therapeutic management of single pancreatic cystic lesions.

ABSTRACT:

Background and aim

The diagnosis and therapeutic management of large single pancreatic cystic lesions (PCLs) represent major issues for clinicians and essentially rely on endoscopic ultrasound fine-needle aspiration (EUS-FNA) findings. Needle-based confocal laser endomicroscopy (nCLE) has high diagnostic performance for PCLs. This study aimed to evaluate the impact of nCLE on the therapeutic management of patients with single PCLs.

Methods

Retrospective and comparative study. Five independent pancreatic disease experts from tertiary hospitals independently reviewed data from a prospective database of 206 patients with single PCL, larger than 2 cm and who underwent EUS-FNA and nCLE. Two evaluations were performed. The first one included the sequential review of clinical infor

SUBMITTER: Palazzo M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7214514 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature