Journal
EUROPEAN RADIOLOGY
Volume 24, Issue 5, Pages 1020-1029Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s00330-014-3112-2
Keywords
MRI; Pancreas; Cyst; Gadolinium; Outcome
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To examine the natural history of incidentally detected pancreatic cysts and whether a simplified MRI protocol without gadolinium is adequate for lesion follow-up. Over a 10-year period, 301-patients with asymptomatic pancreatic cysts underwent follow-up (45 months +/- 30). The magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) protocol included axial, coronal T2-weighted images, MR cholangiopancreatographic and fat suppressed T1-weighted sequences before and after gadolinium. Three radiologists independently reviewed the initial MRI, the follow-up studies using first only unenhanced images, then secondly gadolinium-enhanced-sequences. Lesion changes during follow-up were recorded and the added value of gadolinium-enhanced sequences was determined by classifying the lesions into risk categories. Three hundred and one patients (1,174 cysts) constituted the study population. Only 35/301 patients (12 %) showed significant lesion change on follow-up. Using multivariate analysis the only independent factor of lesion growth (OR = 2.4; 95 % CI, 1.7-3.3; P < 0.001) and mural nodule development (OR = 1.9; 95 % CI, 1.1-3.4, P = 0.03) during follow-up was initial lesion size. No patient with a lesion initial size less than 2 cm developed cancer during follow-up. Intra-observer agreement with and without gadolinium enhancement ranged from 0.86 to 0.97. After consensus review of discordant cases, gadolinium-enhanced sequences demonstrated no added value. Most incidental pancreatic cystic lesions did not demonstrate change during follow-up. The addition of gadolinium-enhanced-sequences had no added-value for risk assignment on serial follow-up. aEuro cent Significant growth of pancreatic cysts occurred in a minority of patients only. aEuro cent No lesion < 2 cm demonstrated any change during the first year of follow-up. aEuro cent Intra-observer agreement between MR pancreatic protocols with and without gadolinium was excellent. aEuro cent Gadolinium application had limited value for follow-up of asymptomatic pancreatic cystic lesions.
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