DOI: 10.36347/sasjs.2021.v07i02.012

Pages: 78-81

A pancreatic incidentaloma is a cystic or solid lesion of the pancreas that is accidentally diagnosed during a routine x-ray exam to explore another organ unrelated to pancreatic disease. Nowadays, thanks to the increased performance of radiological explorations, the fortuitous discovery of pancreatic incidentalomas has become more and more frequent. This discovery is a delicate problem in front of which a complete assessment will be systematically carried out including abdominal CT, pancreatic MRI and echendoscopy in order to precisely determine the nature of this incidentaloma. The choice of the best therapeutic option remains difficult and will be between excisional surgery which can be risky with fairly significant morbidity or monitoring which can be problematic in case of a diagnostic error.