Table 3.
Ability of magnetic resonance cholangiopancreatography to determine the presence of choledochal cysts in previous studies
| Ref. | Total No. of Pts. | Enrollment | Blinding | Total with CC1 | CC detected | Not detected |
| Hirohashi et al[47] | 10 | Retrospective | Not stated | 5 | 5 | 0 |
| Sugiyama et al[22] | 11 | Prospective | Unblinded | 7 | 7 | 0 |
| Chan et al[44] | 11 | Retrospective | Not stated | 6 | 6 | 0 |
| Irie et al[56] | 16 | Retrospective | Blinded | 16 | 16 | 0 |
| Matos et al[57] | 8 | Prospective | Blinded | 8 | 8 | 0 |
| Govil et al[58] | 9 | Retrospective | Not stated | 9 | 9 | 0 |
| Miyazaki et al[43] | 6 | Prospective | Blinded | 6 | 6 | 0 |
| Frampas et al[54] | 5 | Retrospective | Not stated | 5 | 5 | 0 |
| Shimuzu et al[59] | 16 | Prospective | Blinded | 7 | 7 | 0 |
| Tang et al[77] | 10 | Prospective | Not stated | 10 | 10 | 0 |
| Kim et al[60] | 20 | Retrospective | Blinded | 20 | 20 | 0 |
| Park et al[55] | 72 | Retrospective | Blinded | 72 | 69 | 3 |
| Suzuki et al[61] | 33 | Retrospective | Blinded | 32 | 32 | 0 |
| Fitoz et al[62] | 23 | Retrospective | Blinded | 5 | 5 | 0 |
| Huang et al[63] | 60 | Retrospective | Unblinded | 22 | 22 | 0 |
| Saito et al[64] | 16 | Retrospective | Blinded | 16 | 16 | 0 |
| Michaelides et al[65] | 6 | Retrospective | Not stated | 6 | 6 | 0 |
| De Angelis et al[66] | 28 | Retrospective | Not stated | 15 | 15 | 0 |
| Sacher et al | 8 | Retrospective | Blinded | 8 | 8 | 0 |
1
As determined by intraoperative/endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography findings. CC detected: Choledochal cyst detected by magnetic resonance cholangiopancreatography.