{"id":860,"date":"2018-09-18T09:00:56","date_gmt":"2018-09-18T08:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/journals.myesr.org\/eur-radiol\/2018\/09\/18\/measure-ipmn-optimal-follow\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T10:28:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T09:28:06","slug":"measure-ipmn-optimal-follow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journals.myesr.org\/eur-radiol\/highlights\/measure-ipmn-optimal-follow\/","title":{"rendered":"How should we measure IPMN for an optimal follow-up?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>IPMN is very common and most patients are only followed-up with an MRI. This study shows that simple manual evaluation in the axial plane is reliable and reproducible.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Key points:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>MRI measurements by different radiologists can be used for IPMN follow-up.<\/li>\n<li>Both diameter and volume measurements demonstrate excellent interobserver and intraobserver reproducibility.<\/li>\n<li>Manual axial measurements show the highest interobserver reproducibility in determining size.<\/li>\n<li>Axial and coronal volume measurements show similar limits of agreement.<\/li>\n<li>Manual axial measurements show the lowest variability in agreement range.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Article:\u00a0<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/article\/10.1007\/s00330-017-5268-z\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Are pancreatic IPMN volumes measured on MRI images more reproducible than diameters? An assessment in a large single-institution cohort<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Authors:<\/strong> Pallavi Pandey, Ankur Pandey, Farnaz Najmi Varzaneh, Mounes Aliyari Ghasabeh, Daniel Fouladi, Pegah Khoshpouri, Nannan Shao, Manijeh Zarghampour, Ralph H. Hruban, Marcia Canto, Anne Marie O\u2019Broin-Lennon and Ihab R. Kamel<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IPMN is very common and most patients are only followed-up with an MRI. This study shows that simple manual evaluation in the axial plane is reliable and reproducible. Key points: MRI measurements by different radiologists can be used for IPMN follow-up. Both diameter and volume measurements demonstrate excellent interobserver and intraobserver reproducibility. Manual axial measurements [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1892,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-highlights"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>How should we measure IPMN for an optimal follow-up? - European Radiology<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/journals.myesr.org\/eur-radiol\/highlights\/measure-ipmn-optimal-follow\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"How should we measure IPMN for an optimal follow-up? - European Radiology\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"IPMN is very common and most patients are only followed-up with an MRI. 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