Primary skull base neuroendocrine carcinoma—a case report and review of literature

Skull-based neuroendocrine carcinomas are rare tumors with only a few case reports in literature. Here we present an unusual case of primary neuroendocrine carcinoma of the skull in 60-year-old male which was proven on surgical biopsy. The imaging features of this rare tumor along with differential...

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Autores principales: Joshi, Vishwanath Vijay, Thombare, Pranav, Verma, Mitusha, Kamat, Neemish, Patkar, Deepak
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
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Publicado: Elsevier 2020
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Head and Neck
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7243057/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32461779
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.radcr.2020.04.064
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author Joshi, Vishwanath Vijay
Thombare, Pranav
Verma, Mitusha
Kamat, Neemish
Patkar, Deepak
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description Skull-based neuroendocrine carcinomas are rare tumors with only a few case reports in literature. Here we present an unusual case of primary neuroendocrine carcinoma of the skull in 60-year-old male which was proven on surgical biopsy. The imaging features of this rare tumor along with differential diagnosis are discussed with brief review of the literature.
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spelling pubmed-72430572020-05-26 Primary skull base neuroendocrine carcinoma—a case report and review of literature Joshi, Vishwanath Vijay Thombare, Pranav Verma, Mitusha Kamat, Neemish Patkar, Deepak Radiol Case Rep Head and Neck Skull-based neuroendocrine carcinomas are rare tumors with only a few case reports in literature. Here we present an unusual case of primary neuroendocrine carcinoma of the skull in 60-year-old male which was proven on surgical biopsy. The imaging features of this rare tumor along with differential diagnosis are discussed with brief review of the literature. Elsevier 2020-05-21 /pmc/articles/PMC7243057/ /pubmed/32461779 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.radcr.2020.04.064 Text en © 2020 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Inc. on behalf of University of Washington. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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title Primary skull base neuroendocrine carcinoma—a case report and review of literature
title_full Primary skull base neuroendocrine carcinoma—a case report and review of literature
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title_short Primary skull base neuroendocrine carcinoma—a case report and review of literature
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7243057/
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