Incidents and adverse events of endoscopic ultrasound-guided fine-needle aspiration for pancreatic cystic lesions

Table 1 Baseline characteristics of 140 patients suspected of pancreatic cystic lesions

Characteristic	Result1
Age, yr	50.1 ± 15.4
Sex
Female	88 (62.9)
Male	52 (37.1)
Cyst location
Head/uncinate	67 (47.9)
Body/tail	67 (47.8)
Multiple cysts	6 (4.3)
Pathological diagnosis
Neoplastic cyst	70
MCN	25
SCN	27
SPN	7
IPMN	8
NEN	1
Cystadenocarcinoma	2
Non-neoplastic cyst	5
Pseudo cyst	2
True cyst	2
Cystic tuberculosis	1

¹Presented as mean ± SD, n (%), or n. IPMN: Intraductal papilla mucinous neoplasm; MCN: Mucinous cystic neoplasm; SCN: Serous cystic neoplasm; SPN: Solid pancreatic neoplasms; NEN: Neuroendocrine neoplasm.

Table 2 Incidents of patients after endoscopic ultrasound-guided fine-needle aspiration

Incident	n
Abdominal pain	7
Hyperamylasemia	9
Abdominal pain + hyperamylasemia	4
Abdominal pain + low-grade fever + hyperamylasemia	1
Low-grade fever + hyperamylasemia	1

Table 3 Comparison between incidents/adverse events and non-complaints of endoscopic ultrasound-guided fine-needle aspiration

	Incidents/AEs group, n = 23	Non-complaints group, n = 35	P value
Age, yr	52.6 ± 19.0	52.6 ± 13.5	> 0.05 (NS)
Sex			> 0.05 (NS)
Female	12	18
Male	11	17
Location			> 0.05 (NS)
Head/uncinate	15	18
Body/tail	5	15
Multiple cysts	3	2
Size by EUS mm	34.5 ± 20.1	41.2 ± 21.5	> 0.05 (NS)

Data are presented as mean ± SD or n. AEs: Adverse events; EUS: Endoscopic ultrasound; NS: Not significant.