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Liver transplant for metastatic neuroendocrine tumors: a single-center report

ABSTRACT BACKGROUND: Neuroendocrine tumors are rare neoplasms of uncertain biological behavior. The liver is one of the most common sites of metastases, occurring in 50% of patients with metastatic disease. AIMS: To analyze a clinical series in liver transplant of patients with neuroendocrine tumors me...

Neoplasias neuroendocrinas del intestino: serie de casos

Int. j. morphol; 39 (5), 2021
RESUMEN: Los tumores neuroendocrinos (TNE) intestinales representan el mayor porcentaje de este tipo de lesiones a nivel del aparato digestivo. El tratamiento de elección es la extirpación de la lesión primaria y sus linfonodos regionales. El objetivo de este estudio es reportar el resultado de pacien...

Merkel cell carcinoma metastatic to the testis: report of a rare diagnosis and review of the literature

Autops. Case Rep; 11 (), 2021
Merkel cell carcinoma is an aggressive malignancy that frequently recurs/disseminates, but metastases to the genitourinary tract are rare. Only eight cases of Merkel cell carcinoma metastatic to the testis are reported. We describe the ninth case of this event and provide a review of the literature. A 58...

Neuroendocrine tumor in a child with common variable immunodeficiency

ABSTRACT Objective: To report a case of a child with primary immunodeficiency who at eight years developed digestive symptoms, culminating with the diagnosis of a neuroendocrine tumor at ten years of age. Case description: One-year-old boy began to present recurrent pneumonias in different pulmonary ...

The role of conventional echoendoscopy (eus) in therapeutic decisions in patients with neuroendocrine gastrointestinal tumors

ABCD (São Paulo, Impr.); 33 (2), 2020
ABSTRACT Background: Gastrointestinal neuroendocrine tumors are rare, usually presented as subepithelial or polypoid tumors. Accurate diagnosis and indication of the type of resection are still challenging. Aim: To determine the effectiveness of echoendoscopy in determining the depth of the lesions (...

Tumores hepáticos primarios malignos no hepatocarcinoma ni colangiocarcinoma

Rev. méd. Chile; 147 (6), 2019
Background: There are several types of primary malignant hepatic tumors (PMHT) other than hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) and cholangiocarcinoma (CC): they are infrequent and poorly known. Imaging studies could help characterize the lesions and may guide the diagnosis. However, the definitive diagnosis of...

Utilidad de la elastografía guiada por ultrasonografía endoscópica en la evaluación de lesiones sólidas pancreáticas

Introducción: La elastografía guiada por ultrasonografía endoscópica es considerada una herramienta útil en la evaluación de las lesiones solidas pancreáticas (LSP). Objetivo: El objetivo del estudio fue evaluar el rendimiento diagnóstico de la elastografia en pacientes con LSP. Material y métod...

Tumores neuroendocrinos primarios de colon y recto

Rev. chil. cir; 70 (1), 2018
Resumen Introducción La clasificación y el manejo de los tumores neuroendocrinos (TNEs) han cambiado drásticamente en la última década. Se realiza un análisis crítico del manejo de los TENs colorrectales primarios intervenidos en nuestro centro a la luz de la nueva clasificación. Material y Mé...

Neuroendocrine tumors: An epidemiological study of 250 cases at a tertiary hospital

Summary Objective: To compare the frequency of neuroendocrine tumors in our service with that reported in the literature considering age, gender, location, degree of differentiation and increase in incidence by means of a retrospective study. Method: Search of variables from a database of neuroendocrin...

Primary neuroendocrine neoplasm of the esophagus – Report of 14 cases from a single institute and review of the literature

Arq. gastroenterol; 54 (1), 2017
ABSTRACT BACKGROUND Most prevalent esophageal neoplasm is squamous cell carcinoma and adenocarcinoma. Other tumors are uncommon and poorly studied. Primary neuroendocrine esophageal neoplasm is a rare carcinoma and most of its therapy management is based on lung neuroendocrine studies. Neuroendocrine tu...