A Case of Pancreatic Neuroendocrine Tumor With Extensive Skeletal Metastases Detected on 68Ga-DOTANOC PET-CT

Neuroendocrine tumors (NETs) are a rather uncommon cause of chronic non-bloody diarrhea and are therefore often left undiagnosed for prolonged periods of time. In this case, a 46-year-old man was inappropriately treated with antibiotics for months by various doctors, and by the time the diagnosis of...

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Autor principal: Wakankar, Ritwik
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2023
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Emergency Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10483888/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37692584
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.43130
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description Neuroendocrine tumors (NETs) are a rather uncommon cause of chronic non-bloody diarrhea and are therefore often left undiagnosed for prolonged periods of time. In this case, a 46-year-old man was inappropriately treated with antibiotics for months by various doctors, and by the time the diagnosis of NET was made, the tumor had already metastasized to the entire skeleton. The patient refused surgery and was started on octreotide, which resolved his diarrhea.
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spelling pubmed-104838882023-09-08 A Case of Pancreatic Neuroendocrine Tumor With Extensive Skeletal Metastases Detected on 68Ga-DOTANOC PET-CT Wakankar, Ritwik Cureus Emergency Medicine Neuroendocrine tumors (NETs) are a rather uncommon cause of chronic non-bloody diarrhea and are therefore often left undiagnosed for prolonged periods of time. In this case, a 46-year-old man was inappropriately treated with antibiotics for months by various doctors, and by the time the diagnosis of NET was made, the tumor had already metastasized to the entire skeleton. The patient refused surgery and was started on octreotide, which resolved his diarrhea. Cureus 2023-08-08 /pmc/articles/PMC10483888/ /pubmed/37692584 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.43130 Text en Copyright © 2023, Wakankar et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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A Case of Pancreatic Neuroendocrine Tumor With Extensive Skeletal Metastases Detected on 68Ga-DOTANOC PET-CT
title A Case of Pancreatic Neuroendocrine Tumor With Extensive Skeletal Metastases Detected on 68Ga-DOTANOC PET-CT
title_full A Case of Pancreatic Neuroendocrine Tumor With Extensive Skeletal Metastases Detected on 68Ga-DOTANOC PET-CT
title_fullStr A Case of Pancreatic Neuroendocrine Tumor With Extensive Skeletal Metastases Detected on 68Ga-DOTANOC PET-CT
title_full_unstemmed A Case of Pancreatic Neuroendocrine Tumor With Extensive Skeletal Metastases Detected on 68Ga-DOTANOC PET-CT
title_short A Case of Pancreatic Neuroendocrine Tumor With Extensive Skeletal Metastases Detected on 68Ga-DOTANOC PET-CT
title_sort case of pancreatic neuroendocrine tumor with extensive skeletal metastases detected on 68ga-dotanoc pet-ct
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10483888/
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