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Neuroendocrine Neoplasm of the Breast Presenting as a Liver Metastasis: A Rare Diagnostic Challenge
We present a case of a 58-year-old female who presented initially to an outside institution with abdominal pain and was diagnosed on liver biopsy with a well-differentiated neuroendocrine tumor of an unknown primary source. She was referred to our academic institution for a second opinion after dise...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8413109/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34513437 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.16860 |
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author | Masab, Muhammad Gross, Alexander Flanagan, Melina Goldberg, Richard Malla, Midhun |
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description | We present a case of a 58-year-old female who presented initially to an outside institution with abdominal pain and was diagnosed on liver biopsy with a well-differentiated neuroendocrine tumor of an unknown primary source. She was referred to our academic institution for a second opinion after disease progression on the initial chemotherapy regimen. Through additional evaluation, diagnostics, and multi-disciplinary tumor board discussion she was diagnosed with metastases from a well-differentiated neuroendocrine neoplasm of the breast (NENB). Consequently, her treatment plan was modified leading to significant clinical and radiological improvement. |
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spelling | pubmed-84131092021-09-09 Neuroendocrine Neoplasm of the Breast Presenting as a Liver Metastasis: A Rare Diagnostic Challenge Masab, Muhammad Gross, Alexander Flanagan, Melina Goldberg, Richard Malla, Midhun Cureus Internal Medicine We present a case of a 58-year-old female who presented initially to an outside institution with abdominal pain and was diagnosed on liver biopsy with a well-differentiated neuroendocrine tumor of an unknown primary source. She was referred to our academic institution for a second opinion after disease progression on the initial chemotherapy regimen. Through additional evaluation, diagnostics, and multi-disciplinary tumor board discussion she was diagnosed with metastases from a well-differentiated neuroendocrine neoplasm of the breast (NENB). Consequently, her treatment plan was modified leading to significant clinical and radiological improvement. Cureus 2021-08-03 /pmc/articles/PMC8413109/ /pubmed/34513437 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.16860 Text en Copyright © 2021, Masab et al. https://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. |
spellingShingle | Internal Medicine Masab, Muhammad Gross, Alexander Flanagan, Melina Goldberg, Richard Malla, Midhun Neuroendocrine Neoplasm of the Breast Presenting as a Liver Metastasis: A Rare Diagnostic Challenge |
title | Neuroendocrine Neoplasm of the Breast Presenting as a Liver Metastasis: A Rare Diagnostic Challenge |
title_full | Neuroendocrine Neoplasm of the Breast Presenting as a Liver Metastasis: A Rare Diagnostic Challenge |
title_fullStr | Neuroendocrine Neoplasm of the Breast Presenting as a Liver Metastasis: A Rare Diagnostic Challenge |
title_full_unstemmed | Neuroendocrine Neoplasm of the Breast Presenting as a Liver Metastasis: A Rare Diagnostic Challenge |
title_short | Neuroendocrine Neoplasm of the Breast Presenting as a Liver Metastasis: A Rare Diagnostic Challenge |
title_sort | neuroendocrine neoplasm of the breast presenting as a liver metastasis: a rare diagnostic challenge |
topic | Internal Medicine |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8413109/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34513437 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.16860 |
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