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Table 6 Types of extra-hepatic incidentalomas

From: Incidentalomas are associated with an increase in liver transplantation in patients with cirrhosis: a single-center retrospective study

Patients with Incidentalomas, N = 574

Total, %

Total number of Incidentalomas

690

Patients with multiple incidentalomas

106 (18.5%)

Types of incidentalomas

Kidney

420 (60.9%)

Pancreas

208 (30.1%)

Spleen

25 (3.6%)

Adrenal

11 (1.6%)

Gallbladder

11 (1.6%)

Pelvic

9 (1.3%)

Bone

4 (0.6%)

Stomach

2 (0.3%)

Number of incidentalomas undergoing biopsy/resection

16 (2.3%)

Pancreas

7 (47.1%)

Kidney

3 (17.6%)

Gallbladder

4 (23.5%)

Pelvis

1 (5.9%)

Stomach

1 (5.9%)

Number of malignancies detected

7 (1.0%)

Gastric Neuroendocrine Tumor

1 (14.3%)

Cholangiocarcinoma

2 (28.6%)

Renal cell carcinoma

3 (42.9%)

Pancreatic adenocarcinoma

1 (14.3%)

Management of incidentalomas

Observation

682 (98.8%)

Surgery, alone

5 (0.7%)

Chemotherapy/Radiation, alone

2 (0.3%)

Surgery and Chemotherapy/Radiation

1 (0.1%)