Incidental pancreatic cysts: clinicopathologic characteristics and comparison with symptomatic patients.

By C. F. Fernandez-Del Castillo, J. Targarona, S. Thayer, D. Rattner, W. Brugge, A. Warshaw. Archives of Surgery, 2003

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Managing incidental findings on abdominal CT: white paper of the ACR incidental findings committee. (2010, neutral): “5% [82].”
Revisions of international consensus Fukuoka guidelines for the management of IPMN of the pancreas. (2017, background): “A cyst with invasive carcinoma is uncommon in asymptomatic patients, particularly if the cyst is 5 mm, and therefore no further work-up may be needed at that point, although follow-up is still recommended [28,29].”
Prevalence of unsuspected pancreatic cysts on MDCT. (2008, background): “At the high end of the detection spectrum, Fernandez-del Castillo and colleagues [9] studied the records of 212 patients with pancreatic cystic lesions seen at Massachusetts General Hospital and found that 36.”