Real-world staging computed tomography scanning technique and important reporting discrepancies in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma.

Real-world staging imaging in PDAC patients show low proportion of dedicated CT pancreas protocol, high proportion of incomplete staging reports and no synoptic reporting. The most common discrepancy between initial and sub-specialist reporting was regarding metastases and tumour-vascular relationship assessment resulting in sub-specialist down-staging in almost every fifth case.