Multimodality treatment of unresectable hepatic metastases from pancreatic glucagonoma

Glucagonomas are pancreatic islet cell tumors arising from the alpha cells which belong to neuroendocrine tumors. They frequently metastasize to the liver. We report the case of a 52- year old man with a pancreatic glucagonoma with synchronous multiple liver metastases treated by surgery, transarter...

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Autores principales: Poggi, Guido, Villani, Laura, Bernardo, Giovanni
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: PAGEPress Publications 2009
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2994425/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21139900
http://dx.doi.org/10.4081/rt.2009.e6
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Villani, Laura
Bernardo, Giovanni
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description Glucagonomas are pancreatic islet cell tumors arising from the alpha cells which belong to neuroendocrine tumors. They frequently metastasize to the liver. We report the case of a 52- year old man with a pancreatic glucagonoma with synchronous multiple liver metastases treated by surgery, transarterial chemoembolization, percutaneous radiofrequency thermal ablation and long-acting octreotide. Our report confirms that a multimodal approach is very effective in patients with unresectable liver metastases from pancreatic endocrine tumors providing long-lasting palliation and probably prolonging survival.
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spelling pubmed-29944252010-12-07 Multimodality treatment of unresectable hepatic metastases from pancreatic glucagonoma Poggi, Guido Villani, Laura Bernardo, Giovanni Rare Tumors Case Report Glucagonomas are pancreatic islet cell tumors arising from the alpha cells which belong to neuroendocrine tumors. They frequently metastasize to the liver. We report the case of a 52- year old man with a pancreatic glucagonoma with synchronous multiple liver metastases treated by surgery, transarterial chemoembolization, percutaneous radiofrequency thermal ablation and long-acting octreotide. Our report confirms that a multimodal approach is very effective in patients with unresectable liver metastases from pancreatic endocrine tumors providing long-lasting palliation and probably prolonging survival. PAGEPress Publications 2009-07-22 /pmc/articles/PMC2994425/ /pubmed/21139900 http://dx.doi.org/10.4081/rt.2009.e6 Text en ©Copyright G. Poggi et al., 2009 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (by-nc 3.0)
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Multimodality treatment of unresectable hepatic metastases from pancreatic glucagonoma
title Multimodality treatment of unresectable hepatic metastases from pancreatic glucagonoma
title_full Multimodality treatment of unresectable hepatic metastases from pancreatic glucagonoma
title_fullStr Multimodality treatment of unresectable hepatic metastases from pancreatic glucagonoma
title_full_unstemmed Multimodality treatment of unresectable hepatic metastases from pancreatic glucagonoma
title_short Multimodality treatment of unresectable hepatic metastases from pancreatic glucagonoma
title_sort multimodality treatment of unresectable hepatic metastases from pancreatic glucagonoma
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2994425/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21139900
http://dx.doi.org/10.4081/rt.2009.e6
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