To differentiate mucinous from nonmucinous pancreatic cysts, try a simple intracystic glucose test.
Compared with the recommended use of carcinoembryonic antigen, the glucose measurement was more accurate, researchers reported at the 2021 virtual Digestive Disease Week (abstract 336).
Pancreatic cystic lesions (PCLs) often are diagnosed incidentally, but differentiating mucinous PCLs, which have malignant potential, from nonmucinous PCLs can be a diagnostic challenge, said Sagarika Satyavada, MD,