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. 2011 Aug 22;2011:478913. doi: 10.1155/2011/478913

Table 1.

Differential diagnosis of pancreatic cysts.

Nonneoplastic lesions Neoplastic lesions
IPMN
Pseudocysts MCN
SCN
Syndromes causing multiple cysts SPN
(i) Autosomal dominant polycystic disease
(ii) Cystic fibrosis

Infectious cysts Cystic variants of solid tumors
(i) Hydatid cysts (i) Cystic teratoma
(ii) Abscess (ii) Cystic ductal adenocarcinoma
(iii) Cystic neuroendocrine tumor
(iv) Cystic acinar cell carcinoma
Lymphoepithelial cysts (v) Cystic metastases
Congenital epithelial cysts
Duplication cysts
Retention cysts