Pancreatic neuroendocrine tumor with metastasis to the spleen: a case report
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- 作者：Yasunaru Sakuma ; Yoshikazu Yasuda ; Naohiro Sata ; Yoshinori Hosoya…
- 关键词：Pancreatic neuroendocrine tumor ; Spleen metastasis ; Liver metastasis ; Somatostatin ; Radiofrequency ablation ; Case report
- 刊名：BMC Cancer
- 出版年：2017
- 出版时间：December 2017
- 年：2017
- 卷：17
- 期：1
- 全文大小：1435KB
- 刊物主题：Cancer Research; Oncology; Surgical Oncology; Health Promotion and Disease Prevention; Biomedicine, general; Medicine/Public Health, general;
- 出版者：BioMed Central
- ISSN：1471-2407
- 卷排序：17
文摘
BackgroundLong-term term survival in patients with pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors has been reported, even in patients with metastatic disease. Metastases to the spleen are extremely rare, but have been reported from a number of primary malignancies, such as breast cancer, lung cancer, melanoma and ovarian cancer. This is the first report of a splenic metastasis from a primary pancreatic neuroendocrine tumor.