Appendiceal neuroendocrine neoplasms:Diagnosis and management

Endocrine-Related Cancer

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2016, Pages R27-R41

  Alexandraki, Krystallenia I ^a   Kaltsas, Gregory A ^a   Grozinsky Glasberg, Simona ^b   Chatzellis, Eleftherios ^a   Grossman, Ashley B ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b HADASSAH HEBREW UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Appendiceal; Appendicectomy; Carcinoid; Neoplasm; Neuroendocrine; Right hemicolectomy

Indexed keywords

4 IODO 2,5 DIMETHOXYAMPHETAMINE; 5 HYDROXYINDOLEACETIC ACID; GALLIUM EDETATE GA 68; KI 67 ANTIGEN; NEURON SPECIFIC ENOLASE; PENTETREOTIDE; SOMATOSTATIN RECEPTOR; TUMOR MARKER;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ACUTE APPENDICITIS; ADENOCARCINOMA; APPENDECTOMY; APPENDIX TUMOR; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CANCER SURVIVAL; CARCINOID SYNDROME; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONSENSUS; DISEASE SPECIFIC SURVIVAL; DISTANT METASTASIS; FOLLOW UP; HEMICOLECTOMY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LOCAL METASTASIS; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MALIGNANT TRANSFORMATION; METASTASIS POTENTIAL; MINIMAL RESIDUAL DISEASE; MOLECULAR PATHOLOGY; NEUROENDOCRINE TUMOR; NEUROSECRETORY CELL; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PATHOGENESIS; REVIEW; SURGICAL APPROACH; TUMOR INVASION; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; TUMOR VOLUME; APPENDICEAL NEOPLASMS; CANCER STAGING; DISEASE COURSE; ENDOCRINE SYSTEM EXAMINATION; GENETICS; NEUROENDOCRINE TUMORS; PROGNOSIS; STANDARDS;

APPENDICEAL NEOPLASMS; BIOMARKERS, TUMOR; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES, ENDOCRINE; DISEASE PROGRESSION; HUMANS; NEOPLASM STAGING; NEUROENDOCRINE TUMORS; PROGNOSIS;

EID: 84953373408     PISSN: 13510088     EISSN: 14796821     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1530/ERC-15-0310     Document Type: Review

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