Endocrine tumor and intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasm of the pancreas: a fortuitous association?
This study describes a new aspect of endocrine-exocrine pancreatic neoplasm association. The frequency of the association of PET and IPMN is too large to be fortuitous. Further studies are needed to understand its mechanism.
Notwithstanding limitations of statistical power established markers of systemic inflammatory reaction showed no relationship with outcome at 5-day or 3-month follow-up in this subset of patients.