Society guideline links: Pancreatic cysts

Introduction — This topic includes links to society and government-sponsored guidelines from selected countries and regions around the world. We will update these links periodically; newer versions of some guidelines may be available on each society's website. Some societies may require users to log in to access their guidelines.

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Links to related guidelines are provided separately. (See "Society guideline links: Pancreatic cancer" and "Society guideline links: Well-differentiated gastroenteropancreatic neuroendocrine tumors".)

International

●World Gastroenterology Organization (WGO): Practice guideline on pancreatic cystic lesions (2019)

●Pathologic evaluation and reporting of intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasms of the pancreas and other tumoral intraepithelial neoplasms of pancreatobiliary tract – Recommendations of Verona Consensus Meeting (2016)

●International Association of Pancreatology (IAP) and European Pancreatic Club (EPC): International consensus guidelines for the management of IPMN and MCN of the pancreas (2012)

Canada

●Canadian Association of Radiologists (CAR): Diagnostic imaging referral guidelines – Gastrointestinal system (2012)

United States

●American College of Radiology (ACR): ACR Appropriateness Criteria pancreatic cyst (2019)

●American College of Gastroenterology (ACG): Clinical guideline – Diagnosis and management of pancreatic cysts (2018)

●American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ASGE): Guideline on the role of endoscopy in the diagnosis and treatment of cystic pancreatic neoplasms (2016)

●American Gastroenterological Association (AGA): Guideline on the diagnosis and management of asymptomatic neoplastic pancreatic cysts (2015)

●ASGE: Guideline on the role of endoscopy in benign pancreatic disease (2015)

●Papanicolaou Society of Cytopathology (PSC): Guidelines for standardized terminology and nomenclature for pancreatobiliary cytology (2014)

●PSC: Guidelines on postbrushing and fine-needle aspiration biopsy follow-up and treatment options for patients with pancreatobiliary lesions (2014)

●PSC: Techniques for cytologic sampling of pancreatic and bile duct lesions (2014)

●PSC: Utilization of ancillary studies in the cytologic diagnosis of biliary and pancreatic lesions – Guidelines for pancreatobiliary cytology (2014)

●ASGE: Guideline on adverse events associated with EUS and EUS with FNA (2013)

Europe

●European experts consensus statement on cystic tumours of the pancreas (2013)

●International Association of Pancreatology (IAP) and European Pancreatic Club (EPC): International consensus guidelines for the management of IPMN and MCN of the pancreas (2012)

Japan

●[In Japanese] Diagnosis/treatment consensus for local pancreatitis complications (pancreatic pseudocyst, infectious encapsulation necrosis, etc) (2014, published 2015)

●[In Japanese] Japanese Pancreatic Society (JPS): Endoscopic treatment guidelines for pancreatic pseudocysts (2009)