Imaging of neuroendocrine tumours (CT/MR/US)

Best Practice and Research: Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 43-68

  Rockall, Andrea G ^a   Reznek, Rodney H ^a  

^a ST BARTHOLOMEW S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

carcinoid tumours; CT; MRI; neuroendocrine tumours; pancreatic endocrine tumours; ultrasound

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM; GADOLINIUM; VASOACTIVE INTESTINAL POLYPEPTIDE;

BONE METASTASIS; BRONCHUS CARCINOID; CANCER STAGING; CARCINOID; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ECHOGRAPHY; FOLLOW UP; GASTRINOMA; GLUCAGONOMA; HORMONE RELEASE; HUMAN; HYPERGASTRINEMIA; INSULINOMA; LIVER METASTASIS; LUNG METASTASIS; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MESENTERY TUMOR; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; MULTIPLE ENDOCRINE NEOPLASIA; NEUROENDOCRINE TUMOR; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PANCREAS TUMOR; PERITONEAL DISEASE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOMATOSTATINOMA; STOMACH CARCINOID; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURVIVAL RATE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT RESPONSE; TUMOR CLASSIFICATION; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; VIPOMA;

BRONCHIAL NEOPLASMS; CARCINOID TUMOR; ENDOSONOGRAPHY; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GASTROINTESTINAL NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; NEUROENDOCRINE TUMORS; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; THYMUS NEOPLASMS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33947325997     PISSN: 1521690X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beem.2007.01.003     Document Type: Review

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