Islet cell tumours

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Volumn 654, Issue , 2010, Pages 771-789

  Ekeblad, Sara ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Insulinoma; Multiple endocrine neoplasia type 1; Pancreatic endocrine tumours

Indexed keywords

ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; ALPHA INTERFERON; BEVACIZUMAB; CISPLATIN; DOXORUBICIN; ETOPOSIDE; FLUOROURACIL; METHIONINE; PROTON PUMP INHIBITOR; SOMATOSTATIN; SOMATOSTATIN DERIVATIVE; STREPTOZOCIN; SURVIVIN; TEMOZOLOMIDE; THALIDOMIDE; HORMONE;

ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CARCINOGENESIS; CELL CYCLE REGULATION; COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CUSHING SYNDROME; CYTOREDUCTIVE SURGERY; DOWN REGULATION; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG MEGADOSE; ENDOCRINE SURGERY; GASTRINOMA; GENE; GENE MUTATION; GLUCAGONOMA; HORMONE SYNTHESIS; HUMAN; INSULINOMA; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LIVER METASTASIS; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MEN 1 GENE; MULTIPLE ENDOCRINE NEOPLASIA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PANCREAS ISLET CELL CARCINOMA; PANCREAS ISLET CELL TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; REVIEW; SOMATOSTATINOMA; STOMACH SURGERY; SURVIVAL TIME; VIPOMA; VON HIPPEL LINDAU DISEASE; ZOLLINGER ELLISON SYNDROME; ANIMAL; METABOLISM; METASTASIS; METHODOLOGY; ONCOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADENOMA, ISLET CELL; ANIMALS; HORMONES; HUMANS; INSULINOMA; MEDICAL ONCOLOGY; MULTIPLE ENDOCRINE NEOPLASIA TYPE 1; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77953938859     PISSN: 00652598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-3271-3_34     Document Type: Review

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