Metastasized pancreatic neuroendocrine tumor in a teenage girl: a case report

INTRODUCTION: Metastasized pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors are extremely rare malignancies, especially in children. Therefore, therapeutic options are limited, and few standardized therapy regimens exist. CASE PRESENTATION: We report a case of a 14-year-old white girl. In 2011 she was diagnosed wit...

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Autores principales: Tremmel, Tina, Holland-Cunz, Stefan, Günther, Patrick
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4595079/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26438383
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13256-015-0708-3
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description INTRODUCTION: Metastasized pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors are extremely rare malignancies, especially in children. Therefore, therapeutic options are limited, and few standardized therapy regimens exist. CASE PRESENTATION: We report a case of a 14-year-old white girl. In 2011 she was diagnosed with a metastasized, well-differentiated pancreatic neuroendocrine tumor with expression of synaptophysin and chromogranin A. We describe her clinical course with special attention to her individual therapeutic regimens while bringing together several disciplines of medicine. CONCLUSIONS: In patients such as ours, surgical intervention may be the only therapy that will lead to long-term survival.
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spelling pubmed-45950792015-10-07 Metastasized pancreatic neuroendocrine tumor in a teenage girl: a case report Tremmel, Tina Holland-Cunz, Stefan Günther, Patrick J Med Case Rep Case Report INTRODUCTION: Metastasized pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors are extremely rare malignancies, especially in children. Therefore, therapeutic options are limited, and few standardized therapy regimens exist. CASE PRESENTATION: We report a case of a 14-year-old white girl. In 2011 she was diagnosed with a metastasized, well-differentiated pancreatic neuroendocrine tumor with expression of synaptophysin and chromogranin A. We describe her clinical course with special attention to her individual therapeutic regimens while bringing together several disciplines of medicine. CONCLUSIONS: In patients such as ours, surgical intervention may be the only therapy that will lead to long-term survival. BioMed Central 2015-10-05 /pmc/articles/PMC4595079/ /pubmed/26438383 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13256-015-0708-3 Text en © Tremmel et al. 2015 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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title_short Metastasized pancreatic neuroendocrine tumor in a teenage girl: a case report
title_sort metastasized pancreatic neuroendocrine tumor in a teenage girl: a case report
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