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Primary Hepatic Neuroendocrine Tumor: A Case Report and Literature Review

Primary hepatic neuroendocrine tumors (PHNETs) are an utterly rare subtype of neuroendocrine tumors (NETs) that arise from cells of the neuroendocrine system. Due to the rarity and lack of distinctive radiological features, diagnosis and management of this tumor are challenging. Herein, we report a...

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Autores principales: Elayan, Ahmad, Batah, Hamzeh, Badawi, Moath, Saadeh, Ahmad, Abdel Hafez, Sufian
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8938252/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35371747
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.22370
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author Elayan, Ahmad
Batah, Hamzeh
Badawi, Moath
Saadeh, Ahmad
Abdel Hafez, Sufian
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description Primary hepatic neuroendocrine tumors (PHNETs) are an utterly rare subtype of neuroendocrine tumors (NETs) that arise from cells of the neuroendocrine system. Due to the rarity and lack of distinctive radiological features, diagnosis and management of this tumor are challenging. Herein, we report a case of PHNET in a 19-year-old previously healthy female patient whose diagnosis was confirmed by histopathology and immunohistochemistry. This case emphasizes the importance of considering PHNETs in the differential diagnosis of a hepatic mass, management of patients with this disease, and post-operative follow-up.
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spelling pubmed-89382522022-03-31 Primary Hepatic Neuroendocrine Tumor: A Case Report and Literature Review Elayan, Ahmad Batah, Hamzeh Badawi, Moath Saadeh, Ahmad Abdel Hafez, Sufian Cureus Internal Medicine Primary hepatic neuroendocrine tumors (PHNETs) are an utterly rare subtype of neuroendocrine tumors (NETs) that arise from cells of the neuroendocrine system. Due to the rarity and lack of distinctive radiological features, diagnosis and management of this tumor are challenging. Herein, we report a case of PHNET in a 19-year-old previously healthy female patient whose diagnosis was confirmed by histopathology and immunohistochemistry. This case emphasizes the importance of considering PHNETs in the differential diagnosis of a hepatic mass, management of patients with this disease, and post-operative follow-up. Cureus 2022-02-18 /pmc/articles/PMC8938252/ /pubmed/35371747 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.22370 Text en Copyright © 2022, Elayan 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.
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Elayan, Ahmad
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Primary Hepatic Neuroendocrine Tumor: A Case Report and Literature Review
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title_full Primary Hepatic Neuroendocrine Tumor: A Case Report and Literature Review
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title_short Primary Hepatic Neuroendocrine Tumor: A Case Report and Literature Review
title_sort primary hepatic neuroendocrine tumor: a case report and literature review
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8938252/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.22370
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