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Gallbladder Neuroendocrine Carcinoma: A Rare Endocrine Tumor

Gallbladder neuroendocrine neoplasms (GB-NEN) are very rare neuroendocrine tumors (NETs). GB-NEN can present as carcinoid or typical/atypical carcinoid or small cell carcinoma. Most of the GB-NENs present as gall bladder polyps or stones with right upper quadrant pain, nausea and non-specific sympto...

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Autores principales: Siddamreddy, Suman, Meegada, Sreenath, Syed, Anum, Sarwar, Mujtaba, Muppidi, Vijayadershan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7192559/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32368420
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.7487
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author Siddamreddy, Suman
Meegada, Sreenath
Syed, Anum
Sarwar, Mujtaba
Muppidi, Vijayadershan
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description Gallbladder neuroendocrine neoplasms (GB-NEN) are very rare neuroendocrine tumors (NETs). GB-NEN can present as carcinoid or typical/atypical carcinoid or small cell carcinoma. Most of the GB-NENs present as gall bladder polyps or stones with right upper quadrant pain, nausea and non-specific symptoms which leads to clinical misdiagnosis. Considering the rare occurrence of GB-NENs, and lack of multi-center research data there is no unified standard for identification and treatment. We here present an 84-year-old male presenting with right upper quadrant and epigastric pain, and eventually diagnosed with mixed cell (more of small cells mixed with intermediate to large cells) neuroendocrine cancer of gall bladder.
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spelling pubmed-71925592020-05-04 Gallbladder Neuroendocrine Carcinoma: A Rare Endocrine Tumor Siddamreddy, Suman Meegada, Sreenath Syed, Anum Sarwar, Mujtaba Muppidi, Vijayadershan Cureus Internal Medicine Gallbladder neuroendocrine neoplasms (GB-NEN) are very rare neuroendocrine tumors (NETs). GB-NEN can present as carcinoid or typical/atypical carcinoid or small cell carcinoma. Most of the GB-NENs present as gall bladder polyps or stones with right upper quadrant pain, nausea and non-specific symptoms which leads to clinical misdiagnosis. Considering the rare occurrence of GB-NENs, and lack of multi-center research data there is no unified standard for identification and treatment. We here present an 84-year-old male presenting with right upper quadrant and epigastric pain, and eventually diagnosed with mixed cell (more of small cells mixed with intermediate to large cells) neuroendocrine cancer of gall bladder. Cureus 2020-03-31 /pmc/articles/PMC7192559/ /pubmed/32368420 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.7487 Text en Copyright © 2020, Siddamreddy 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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Siddamreddy, Suman
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Sarwar, Mujtaba
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Gallbladder Neuroendocrine Carcinoma: A Rare Endocrine Tumor
title Gallbladder Neuroendocrine Carcinoma: A Rare Endocrine Tumor
title_full Gallbladder Neuroendocrine Carcinoma: A Rare Endocrine Tumor
title_fullStr Gallbladder Neuroendocrine Carcinoma: A Rare Endocrine Tumor
title_full_unstemmed Gallbladder Neuroendocrine Carcinoma: A Rare Endocrine Tumor
title_short Gallbladder Neuroendocrine Carcinoma: A Rare Endocrine Tumor
title_sort gallbladder neuroendocrine carcinoma: a rare endocrine tumor
topic Internal Medicine
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7192559/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32368420
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.7487
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