Small Bowel Neuroendocrine Tumors with Inguinal Metastases: A Diagnostic and Therapeutic Dilemma

Small bowel neuroendocrine tumors (NETs) are frequently characterized by a strong propensity to metastasize to the liver, mesentery, and peritoneum. However, only a few extra-abdominal metastatic sites have been reported in the published literature. The present paper implicates that primary small bo...

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Autores principales: Inayat, Faisal, Daly, Kevin P, Askarian, Farhad, Saif, Muhammad W
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2016
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Radiology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4980210/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27555990
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.692
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author Inayat, Faisal
Daly, Kevin P
Askarian, Farhad
Saif, Muhammad W
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description Small bowel neuroendocrine tumors (NETs) are frequently characterized by a strong propensity to metastasize to the liver, mesentery, and peritoneum. However, only a few extra-abdominal metastatic sites have been reported in the published literature. The present paper implicates that primary small bowel NETs may unusually metastasize to the inguinal lymph nodes. Furthermore, we discuss the formidable diagnostic and therapeutic challenges associated with the metastatic NETs.
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spelling pubmed-49802102016-08-23 Small Bowel Neuroendocrine Tumors with Inguinal Metastases: A Diagnostic and Therapeutic Dilemma Inayat, Faisal Daly, Kevin P Askarian, Farhad Saif, Muhammad W Cureus Radiology Small bowel neuroendocrine tumors (NETs) are frequently characterized by a strong propensity to metastasize to the liver, mesentery, and peritoneum. However, only a few extra-abdominal metastatic sites have been reported in the published literature. The present paper implicates that primary small bowel NETs may unusually metastasize to the inguinal lymph nodes. Furthermore, we discuss the formidable diagnostic and therapeutic challenges associated with the metastatic NETs. Cureus 2016-07-14 /pmc/articles/PMC4980210/ /pubmed/27555990 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.692 Text en Copyright © 2016, Inayat et al. http://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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Inayat, Faisal
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Small Bowel Neuroendocrine Tumors with Inguinal Metastases: A Diagnostic and Therapeutic Dilemma
title Small Bowel Neuroendocrine Tumors with Inguinal Metastases: A Diagnostic and Therapeutic Dilemma
title_full Small Bowel Neuroendocrine Tumors with Inguinal Metastases: A Diagnostic and Therapeutic Dilemma
title_fullStr Small Bowel Neuroendocrine Tumors with Inguinal Metastases: A Diagnostic and Therapeutic Dilemma
title_full_unstemmed Small Bowel Neuroendocrine Tumors with Inguinal Metastases: A Diagnostic and Therapeutic Dilemma
title_short Small Bowel Neuroendocrine Tumors with Inguinal Metastases: A Diagnostic and Therapeutic Dilemma
title_sort small bowel neuroendocrine tumors with inguinal metastases: a diagnostic and therapeutic dilemma
topic Radiology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4980210/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.692
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