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@skiball

Thanks Colleen. I have been told mine is IPMN intraductul pappilary mucinous neoplasm. Wonder if they are one and the same?

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Colleen Young, Connect Director | @colleenyoung | Feb 12, 2023

There is a difference, but that's above my pay-grade 🙂
- Comparison of clinicopathologic characteristics and survival outcomes between invasive IPMN and invasive MCN: A population-based analysis https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fonc.2022.899761/full#:~:text=IPMN%20is%20a%20mucin%2Dproducing,IPMN%20and%20MCN%20(7).
- Pancreatic Cystic Neoplasms: Different Types, Different Management, New Guidelines https://www.karger.com/Article/FullText/489641