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Search, selection and inclusion of relevant papers. *Not relevant (other disease, pancreatitis, lung cancer, ovarian cancer, lipoma, neuroendocrine, insulinoma, melanoma, colon carcinoma, renal cell carcinoma, myeloma, colorectal cancer, pancreatitis, endocrine, intracranial, colitis, hernia, polyposis.). †Other type of pancreatic cancer: pseudopapillary, cystadenoma, acinar. ‡Evaluation of other parameters using CT (e.g. qualitative analysis, tumour volume, interobserver). §Case-control studies: evaluation of techniques in patients with pancreatic cancer vs. control (healthy or pancreatitis or other type of tumour, predefined). II Potentially relevant studies: evaluation of CT in patients with suspected, diagnosed pancreatic cancer