Diagnostic performance of current guidelines and postoperative outcome following surgical treatment of cystic pancreatic lesions - a 10-year single center experience.

Overall, the IAP and the European guidelines performed equally, although European guidelines had a slightly higher mean specificity. Pancreatic surgery is associated with high major morbidity, and there is a need for new diagnostic tools and strategies in order to decrease the amount of overtreatment in patients with PCL.