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Multifocal lesions in intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasms: Intraoperative pancreatic juice cytology
Takao OHTSUKA*
Department of Digestive Surgery, Breast and Thyroid Surgery, Kagoshima University, Kagoshima, Japan
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Lecture: On radiological study, 25% to 41% of the patients with intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasms (IPMNs) of the pancreas have multifocal lesions. On the other hand, in pathological assessment, most of these patients had lots of micro premalignant lesions such as small IPMNs and pancreatic intraepitehrial neoplasms (PanINs) in the background pancreas, indicating that all the pancreas having IPMNs have a potential to develop multifocal lesions. There are 3 possible types of multifocal lesions in patients with IPMNs, namely multiple branch duct IPMNs (BD-IPMNs) by multicentric development, multiple main duct or mixed type IPMNs (MD- or Mix-IPMNs) by the mechanism of intraductal dissemination of the neoplastic cells [1,2], and the development of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) concomitant with IPMNs [3,4]. Pancreatic juice cytology under endoscopic retrograde pancreatography is reported to leads early detection of concomitant PDAC during assessment of IPMNs [5], while it is often difficult to determine the location of malignant lesions when pancreatography and other imaging modalities cannot provide any significant abnormalities. Therefore, the role of intraoperative pancreatic juice cytology is to determine whether such lesions which are not detected by preoperative assessment might left in the rem- nant pancreas during partial pancreatectomy for IPMN. Previous report [6] demonstrated that in consecutive 48 patients who underwent intraoperative irrigation cytology in the remnant pancreas during partial pancreatectomy for IPMN, 5 patients had positive results and subsequently underwent additional resection of the pancreas. High-risk lesions including 4 PanIN-3 lesions and one invasive carcinoma were detected in all 5 additionally resected specimens. On the other hand, there might be possible patients who might have false negative result of intraoperative irrigation cytology [7] or peritoneal dissemination because of leakage of irrigation solution containing cells from high-risk lesions. In this presentation, roles and limitations of intraoperative pancreatic juice cytology will be discussed.
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Ann Hepatobiliary Pancreat Surg 2021;25 Suppl 1:S22 https://doi.org/10.14701/ahbps.BP-SY-1-3
Corresponding Author: Takao OHTSUKA ([email protected]) Presenter: Takao OHTSUKA ([email protected])
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