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Intraductal Papillary Mucinous Neoplasms of the Pancreas

2010; Elsevier BV; Volume: 139; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1053/j.gastro.2010.07.025

1528-0012

Carlos Fernández‐del Castillo, Volkan Adsay,

Gastrointestinal disorders and treatments

Every now and then a disease emerges that manages to transform a medical field. Such is the case of intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasms (IPMN) in pancreatology. Over the last 20 years, this diagnosis has gradually permeated the thinking of physicians and researchers involved in pancreatic diseases, and suddenly pancreatic symptoms have a broader differential diagnosis, cysts and dilated pancreatic ducts have different implications, and even pancreatic cancer is being seen through a different prism.