Monitoring Ca19-9 during pancreatic cyst surveillance: Better safe than sorry?

Affiliations

¹ Department of General and Pancreatic Surgery, Verona University Hospital, Verona, Italy.
² Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, New York, USA.
³ Department of Surgical, Oncological and Gastroenterological Sciences (DiSCOG), University of Padua, Padua, Italy.

Editorial

Giampaolo Perri et al. United European Gastroenterol J. 2023 Sep.

. 2023 Sep;11(7):599-600.

doi: 10.1002/ueg2.12449. Epub 2023 Aug 13.

¹ Department of General and Pancreatic Surgery, Verona University Hospital, Verona, Italy.
² Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, New York, USA.
³ Department of Surgical, Oncological and Gastroenterological Sciences (DiSCOG), University of Padua, Padua, Italy.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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