Diagnosis and Management of Cystic Lesions of the Pancreas

Table 1

Differential diagnosis of pancreatic cysts.

Nonneoplastic lesions	Neoplastic lesions
	IPMN
Pseudocysts	MCN
	SCN
Syndromes causing multiple cysts	SPN
(i) Autosomal dominant polycystic disease
(ii) Cystic fibrosis
Infectious cysts	Cystic variants of solid tumors
(i) Hydatid cysts	(i) Cystic teratoma
(ii) Abscess	(ii) Cystic ductal adenocarcinoma
	(iii) Cystic neuroendocrine tumor
	(iv) Cystic acinar cell carcinoma
Lymphoepithelial cysts	(v) Cystic metastases
Congenital epithelial cysts
Duplication cysts
Retention cysts