Su1464 Pancreatic Duct Brush Cytology Can Be an Effective and Safe Method in Pancreatic Diseases

Abstract

Benign or malign reasons may cause pancreatic duct abnormalities like stenosis or dilatation. Although imaging studies may show pancreatic duct abnormalities cannot differentiate malign or benign stenosis. Pancreatic cancer can be diagnosed 33-76% in pancreatic fluid cytology and 47-67% in pancreas brush cytology. In this study, the accuracy of pancreatic cytologic samples targeting the reason of disease are investigated in the patients with pancreatic duct abnormality. Between January 2009 and April 2010, brush cytologic pancreatic duct samples were collected with ERCP from patients with pancreatic duct abnormality detected with screening methods (EUS, CT, MRI).