Open AccessIncidental pancreatic lesions � A diagnostic and management challenge
Author(s) -
Ángel Barturen
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
revista española de enfermedades digestivas/revista española de enfermedades digestivas
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.331
H-Index - 38
eISSN - 2340-4167
pISSN - 1130-0108
DOI - 10.17235/reed.2019.6739/2019
Subject(s) - medicine , lesion , pancreas , radiology , pathology
The term "incidental lesion" denotes any lesion that is diagnosed by chance, by happenstance, usually with imaging techniques for a different condition unrelated to it. The widespread use of imaging tests with ever increasing quality and availability has led to finding an ever increasing number of incidental lesions, in this case in the pancreas.