A Common Concern With a Rare Diagnosis: Pancreatic Neuroendocrine Neoplasms

Pancreatic neuroendocrine neoplasms (pNENs) are rare, representing only a small percentage of all pancreatic tumors. We report the clinical and radiological features of pNENs. Intraoperative pathology confirmed pNENs with clear margins and the patient did not require adjuvant chemoradiation. The pat...

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Autores principales: Jaqua, Ecler, Nguyen, Van, Pan, Vincent, Cereser, Carlos
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2021
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Gastroenterology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8494159/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34659978
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.17767
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author Jaqua, Ecler
Nguyen, Van
Pan, Vincent
Cereser, Carlos
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description Pancreatic neuroendocrine neoplasms (pNENs) are rare, representing only a small percentage of all pancreatic tumors. We report the clinical and radiological features of pNENs. Intraoperative pathology confirmed pNENs with clear margins and the patient did not require adjuvant chemoradiation. The patient is currently doing well and being closely monitored due to the high risk of relapse.
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spelling pubmed-84941592021-10-14 A Common Concern With a Rare Diagnosis: Pancreatic Neuroendocrine Neoplasms Jaqua, Ecler Nguyen, Van Pan, Vincent Cereser, Carlos Cureus Gastroenterology Pancreatic neuroendocrine neoplasms (pNENs) are rare, representing only a small percentage of all pancreatic tumors. We report the clinical and radiological features of pNENs. Intraoperative pathology confirmed pNENs with clear margins and the patient did not require adjuvant chemoradiation. The patient is currently doing well and being closely monitored due to the high risk of relapse. Cureus 2021-09-06 /pmc/articles/PMC8494159/ /pubmed/34659978 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.17767 Text en Copyright © 2021, Jaqua 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 Gastroenterology
Jaqua, Ecler
Nguyen, Van
Pan, Vincent
Cereser, Carlos
A Common Concern With a Rare Diagnosis: Pancreatic Neuroendocrine Neoplasms
title A Common Concern With a Rare Diagnosis: Pancreatic Neuroendocrine Neoplasms
title_full A Common Concern With a Rare Diagnosis: Pancreatic Neuroendocrine Neoplasms
title_fullStr A Common Concern With a Rare Diagnosis: Pancreatic Neuroendocrine Neoplasms
title_full_unstemmed A Common Concern With a Rare Diagnosis: Pancreatic Neuroendocrine Neoplasms
title_short A Common Concern With a Rare Diagnosis: Pancreatic Neuroendocrine Neoplasms
title_sort common concern with a rare diagnosis: pancreatic neuroendocrine neoplasms
topic Gastroenterology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8494159/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34659978
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.17767
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