Current size criteria for the management of neuroendocrine tumors of the appendix: Are they valid? clinical experience and review of the literature

Neuroendocrinology

Volumn 98, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 31-37

  Grozinsky Glasberg, S ^a   Alexandraki, K I ^d   Barak, D ^a   Doviner, V ^b   Reissman, P ^c   Kaltsas, G A ^d   Gross, D J ^a  

^a Endocrinology and Metabolism Service   (Israel)

^b HADASSAH HEBREW UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^c SHAARE ZEDEK MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Appendiceal carcinoid; Chromogranin A; Hemicolectomy; Tumor size

Indexed keywords

KI 67 ANTIGEN; PENTETREOTIDE IN 111;

ADULT; APPENDICEAL NEUROENDOCRINE TUMOR; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HEMICOLECTOMY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MINIMAL RESIDUAL DISEASE; NEUROENDOCRINE TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; SCINTIGRAPHY; TERTIARY CARE CENTER; TREATMENT INDICATION; TUMOR INVASION; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; APPENDICEAL NEOPLASMS; DISEASE MANAGEMENT; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROENDOCRINE TUMORS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84881550787     PISSN: 00283835     EISSN: 14230194     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000343801     Document Type: Review

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