Non-neoplastic solid lesions of the pancreas

Last revised by Mark Thurston on 22 Jul 2018

Non-neoplastic solid lesions of the pancreas are conditions which may mimic pancreatic neoplasms on imaging. They include:

About 5% of pancreatectomies performed with the preoperative diagnosis of malignancy will prove to be non-neoplastic on pathologic examination; however, this figure is decreasing with the current state-of-the-art pancreatic imaging modalities 2

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