Case of an abnormal procalcitonin‐producing metastatic pancreatic neuroendocrine tumor

Procalcitonin (PCT) is widely used to diagnose a bacterial infection. An increased serum PCT can also be observed in tumors. We presented an unusual case of a metastatic PNET producing and secreting PCT. Immunohistochemistry was used to demonstrate that PCT can be secreted by PanNET.

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Autores principales: Wang, Wei‐Zhen, Xu, Long‐Jiang, Hu, Duan‐Min, Tang, Wen
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2020
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Case Reports
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7669398/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33235774
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.3187
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author Wang, Wei‐Zhen
Xu, Long‐Jiang
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Tang, Wen
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description Procalcitonin (PCT) is widely used to diagnose a bacterial infection. An increased serum PCT can also be observed in tumors. We presented an unusual case of a metastatic PNET producing and secreting PCT. Immunohistochemistry was used to demonstrate that PCT can be secreted by PanNET.
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spelling pubmed-76693982020-11-23 Case of an abnormal procalcitonin‐producing metastatic pancreatic neuroendocrine tumor Wang, Wei‐Zhen Xu, Long‐Jiang Hu, Duan‐Min Tang, Wen Clin Case Rep Case Reports Procalcitonin (PCT) is widely used to diagnose a bacterial infection. An increased serum PCT can also be observed in tumors. We presented an unusual case of a metastatic PNET producing and secreting PCT. Immunohistochemistry was used to demonstrate that PCT can be secreted by PanNET. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2020-09-17 /pmc/articles/PMC7669398/ /pubmed/33235774 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.3187 Text en © 2020 The Authors. Clinical Case Reports published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Case of an abnormal procalcitonin‐producing metastatic pancreatic neuroendocrine tumor
title Case of an abnormal procalcitonin‐producing metastatic pancreatic neuroendocrine tumor
title_full Case of an abnormal procalcitonin‐producing metastatic pancreatic neuroendocrine tumor
title_fullStr Case of an abnormal procalcitonin‐producing metastatic pancreatic neuroendocrine tumor
title_full_unstemmed Case of an abnormal procalcitonin‐producing metastatic pancreatic neuroendocrine tumor
title_short Case of an abnormal procalcitonin‐producing metastatic pancreatic neuroendocrine tumor
title_sort case of an abnormal procalcitonin‐producing metastatic pancreatic neuroendocrine tumor
topic Case Reports
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7669398/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33235774
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.3187
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