Primary Mediastinal Neuroendocrine Tumor: A Case of Atypical Carcinoid

Primary mediastinal neuroendocrine tumor (PMNET) is an extremely rare clinical entity and few cases have been described in the literature. Here, we report a histologically confirmed rare PMNET case of a 66-year-old male patient with a mass detected in the anterior upper mediastinum by chest high-res...

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Autores principales: Kosmas, Konstantinos, Vamvakaris, Ioannis, Klapsinou, Eirini, Psychogiou, Eleni, Riga, Dimitra
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2021
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Pathology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7897398/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33628702
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.12853
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author Kosmas, Konstantinos
Vamvakaris, Ioannis
Klapsinou, Eirini
Psychogiou, Eleni
Riga, Dimitra
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description Primary mediastinal neuroendocrine tumor (PMNET) is an extremely rare clinical entity and few cases have been described in the literature. Here, we report a histologically confirmed rare PMNET case of a 66-year-old male patient with a mass detected in the anterior upper mediastinum by chest high-resolution computed tomography (HRCT). Early detection and surgical intervention of this neoplasm are critical for long term survival, though the tumor is associated with a dismal outcome.
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spelling pubmed-78973982021-02-23 Primary Mediastinal Neuroendocrine Tumor: A Case of Atypical Carcinoid Kosmas, Konstantinos Vamvakaris, Ioannis Klapsinou, Eirini Psychogiou, Eleni Riga, Dimitra Cureus Pathology Primary mediastinal neuroendocrine tumor (PMNET) is an extremely rare clinical entity and few cases have been described in the literature. Here, we report a histologically confirmed rare PMNET case of a 66-year-old male patient with a mass detected in the anterior upper mediastinum by chest high-resolution computed tomography (HRCT). Early detection and surgical intervention of this neoplasm are critical for long term survival, though the tumor is associated with a dismal outcome. Cureus 2021-01-22 /pmc/articles/PMC7897398/ /pubmed/33628702 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.12853 Text en Copyright © 2021, Kosmas 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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Kosmas, Konstantinos
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Primary Mediastinal Neuroendocrine Tumor: A Case of Atypical Carcinoid
title Primary Mediastinal Neuroendocrine Tumor: A Case of Atypical Carcinoid
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title_sort primary mediastinal neuroendocrine tumor: a case of atypical carcinoid
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7897398/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33628702
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.12853
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