Table 1.
Demographic and clinical variables, diagnostic work-up, and baseline features of our low-risk branch-duct IPMN population
| Baseline variables | Value |
|---|---|
| Age at diagnosis, median with range (years) | 66 (33–84) |
| Sex | |
| Female, No. (%) | 105 (62.9%) |
| Male, No. (%) | 62 (37.1%) |
| Family history of PDAC, No. (%) | 6 (3.6%) |
| History or presence of symptoms, No. (%) | 31 (18.6%) |
| Pain, No. (%) | 25 (15.0%) |
| Nausea/Vomiting, No. (%) | 2 (1.2%) |
| Weight loss, No. (%) | 4 (2.4%) |
| Incidental finding, No. (%) | 136 (81.4%) |
| Unifocal disease, No. (%) | 61 (36.5%) |
| Multifocal disease, No. (%) | 106 (63.5%) |
| Two cysts, No. (%) | 36 (21.6%) |
| ≥three cysts, No. (%) | 70 (41.9%) |
| Main BD cyst location | |
| Head and uncinate process, No. (%) | 72 (43.1%) |
| Neck and body, No. (%) | 78 (46.7%) |
| Tail, No. (%) | 17 (10.2%) |
| Main BD cyst size, mean ± SD (mm) | 14.5 ± 5.7 |
| MPD caliber, mean ± SD (mm) | 2.6 ± 0.8 |
BD branch-duct, EUS endoscopic ultrasound, FNAC fine-needle aspiration cytology, PDAC pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma, SD standard deviation.