Diagnostic and Management Pathways for Pulmonary Carcinoid Tumours in the United Kingdom: Results from the National Lung Neuroendocrine Tumour Pathway Project by Wasat Mansoor, Stuart Ferguson, Victoria Ross, Denis Talbot

“…We conducted a UK-wide clinician survey to assess current practice for the diagnosis, management, and follow-up of patients with TC/AC and descriptively compared management between European Neuroendocrine Tumor Society (ENETS) accredited centres of excellence (CoE) and nonaccredited centres (non-CoE). …”
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Pathogenicity of germline VHL variants is associated with renal cell carcinoma size in von Hippel-Lindau disease by Gustavo H. Mori, Gustavo F. C. Fagundes, Lucas S. Santana, Felipe Freitas-Castro, Ana Caroline F. Afonso, Delmar M. Lourenço Jr., Maria Adelaide A. Pereira, Fabio Y. Tanno, Victor Srougi, Jose L. Chambo, Mauricio D. Cordeiro, William C. Nahas, Ana O. Hoff, Maria Candida B. V. Fragoso, Berenice B. Mendonca, Ana Claudia Latronico, Madson Q. Almeida

“…Moreover, adrenal paraganglioma (PGL) (82.35% vs. 17.65%; p = 0.0001) and pancreatic neuroendocrine tumor (PNET) (81.81% vs. 18.18%; p = 0.007) were associated with missense VHL pathogenic or likely pathogenic variants compared with non-missense defects. …”
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Meckel’s Diverticulum Diagnosed by Balloon-Assisted Enteroscopy: A Multicenter Report from the Taiwan Association for the Study of Small Intestinal Diseases (TASSID) by Jen-Wei Chou, Chen-Shuan Chung, Tien-Yu Huang, Chia-Hung Tu, Chen-Wang Chang, Chung-Hsin Chang, Yen-Po Wang, Wen-Hung Hsu, Hsu-Heng Yen, Chia-Jung Kuo, Chiao-Hsiung Chuang, Ching-Pin Lin, Tzung-Jiun Tsai, Ming-Yao Su, Horng-Yuan Wang, Deng-Chyang Wu, Cheng-Tang Chiu

“…The mean length of MD in 42 patients who underwent surgical resection was 5.2 cm (in 43 patients of MD with available histopathology: heterotopic gastric tissue, 42.4%, heterotopic gastric and pancreatic tissues, 7%; heterotopic pancreatic tissue, 4.7%; heterotopic colonic tissue, 2.3%; and a neuroendocrine tumor, 2.3%). Conclusions. The current study showed BAE is a very useful modality for detecting MD compared with other conventional modalities.…”
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Low-activity [18F]-somatostatin receptor (SSTR) imaging using [18F]SiTATE on a long axial field-of-view PET/CT scanner by Nils F. Trautwein, Eduardo Calderón, Pia M. Linder, Gerald Reischl, Philippe Driessen, Wenhong Lan, Andreas S. Brendlin, Thorben Groß, Helmut Dittmann, Martina Hinterleitner, Christian la Fougère, Fabian P. Schmidt, Lena S. Kiefer

“…Methods Twenty-four patients with histologically confirmed neuroendocrine tumor, who underwent clinically indicated [18F]SiTATE PET/CT examination (3.0 MBq/kg, 5 min PET scan time) on a Siemens Biograph Vision Quadra LAFOV PET/CT, were included retrospectively in this study. …”
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Metformin in the treatment of colorectal cancer and neuroendocrine tumours by Karolina Daniłowska, Natalia Picheta, Barbara I. Krupska, Anna Rudzińska, Oliwia Burdan, Katarzyna Szklener

“…Neuroendocrine tumors most commonly occur in the gastrointestinal tract and lungs. …”
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REVIEW by Sânziana Ionescu, Laurenţiu Simion, Elena Chitoran, V. Rotaru, Ciprian Cirimbei, Octavia Luciana Madge, Adina Ene, Mădălina Radu, Ariana Neicu, Marian Marincaş

“…Neuroendocrine tumors of the small bowel: a literature review…”
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External Beam Radiation and Brachytherapy for Prostate Cancer: Is It a Possible Trigger of Large Cell Neuroendocrine Carcinoma of the Urinary Bladder? by Ali Zakaria, Bayan Al Share, Sri Kollepara, Cynthia Vakhariya

“…Neuroendocrine tumors commonly involve the respiratory and gastrointestinal systems. …”
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Mediastinal Teratoma with Neuroendocrine Features in 34-Year-Old Male with Syncope by Peter A. Andrawes, Masood A. Shariff, Qing Chang, Fanyi Kong, Frank M. Rosell

“…Neuroendocrine tumors that arise in an extragonadal teratoma are extremely rare. …”
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Diagnostic and Prognostic Impact of Progesterone Receptor Immunohistochemistry: A Study Evaluating More Than 16,000 Tumors by Florian Viehweger, Lisa-Marie Tinger, David Dum, Natalia Gorbokon, Anne Menz, Ria Uhlig, Franziska Büscheck, Andreas M. Luebke, Claudia Hube-Magg, Andrea Hinsch, Doris Höflmayer, Christoph Fraune, Patrick Lebok, Sören Weidemann, Maximilian Lennartz, Frank Jacobsen, Till S. Clauditz, Rainer Krech, Till Krech, Andreas H. Marx, Ronald Simon, Eike Burandt, Stefan Steurer, Guido Sauter, Sarah Minner, Christian Bernreuther

“…Among the group of nongynecological and nonmammary tumors, particularly high rates of PR positivity were seen in neuroendocrine tumors (54.3%) and neuroendocrine carcinomas (35.7%) of the pancreas. …”
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MRI Features with Pathologic Correlation of Primary Ovarian Carcinoid: A Case Report by Bon Jae Koo, Seong Kuk Yoon, Min Gyoung Pak, Kyeong Ah Kim

“…Primary ovarian carcinoid tumors are rare well-differentiated neuroendocrine tumors classified as monodermal teratomas. …”
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A Glucagonoma Presenting as Cerebral Vein Thrombosis and Diabetes by Marina Delli Colli, Bader N. Alamri, Laura Palma, Juan Rivera

“…Glucagonomas are rare pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors (pNETs), malignant in 80% of cases, thus highlighting the importance of early diagnosis and treatment. …”
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An Undiagnosed Paraganglioma in a 58-Year-Old Female Who Underwent Tumor Resection by William C. Fox, Matthew Read, Richard E. Moon, Eugene W. Moretti, Brian J. Colin

“…Paragangliomas and pheochromocytomas are rare neuroendocrine tumors that can have high morbidity and mortality if undiagnosed. …”
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SDHAF2-Linked Metastatic Paraganglioma: A Case Report with Implications for Counseling and Follow-Up of Pathogenic SDHAF2 Variant Carriers by Monique A. M. de Jong, Eleonora P. M. Corssmit, Jeroen C. Jansen, Thomas P. Potjer, Jean-Pierre L. Bayley, Erik F. Hensen

“…Head and neck paragangliomas are slow growing and highly vascular neuroendocrine tumors. It is currently assumed that SDHAF2 variants exclusively cause benign and often multicentric head and neck paragangliomas. …”
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Supraglottic Neuroendocrine Carcinoma: A Case Report and Literature Review by Renda Alhabib, Chaker Zaidi, Abdulrahman Alfryyan, Hanan Albenayyan, Ibrahim Alotain

“…The latter categories include neuroendocrine tumors, or typical carcinoids, and NECs, or atypical carcinoids. …”
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Growth Rate Analysis of an Untreated Glomus Vagale on MRI by Jeffrey Tzu-Yu Wang, Allen Yu-Yu Wang, Sheila Cheng, Lavier Gomes, Melville Da Cruz

“…Paragangliomas are slow growing, hypervascular neuroendocrine tumors that develop in the extra-adrenal paraganglion tissues. …”
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The Highs and Lows of an Unknown Pheochromocytoma in an Elderly Patient by Christina N. DiMaria, Lorena I. Rasquin, Wikien A. Hung Pinto

“…Pheochromocytomas are rare catecholamine producing neuroendocrine tumors. The incidence of these tumors is estimated to affect 0.8 per 100,000 person-years and is most common in the fourth to fifth decade of life with equal prevalence in men and women. …”
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Gastric Collision Tumors: An Insight into Their Origin and Clinical Significance by Adamantios Michalinos, Anastasia Constantinidou, Michael Kontos

“…Tumors encountered are gastric adenocarcinomas colliding with lymphomas, gastrointestinal stromal tumors, squamous cell carcinomas, and neuroendocrine tumors. Their cell origin is obsolete by the time of diagnosis. …”
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Comparative Study between Plastic and Metallic Stents for Biliary Decompression in Patients with Distal Biliary Obstruction by João Guilherme G. Cabral, Eloy Taglieri, Adriane Pelosof, Daniel Rosendo, José Celso Ardengh

“…Diagnoses were 44 pancreatic adenocarcinoma (74.6%), 9 metastasis (15.5%), 3 pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors (5.1%), and 2 adenocarcinoma in the major papilla (3.4%). …”
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Comprehensive case report and literature review on perioperative management of multiple pheochromocytoma in a pediatric patient by Shenghua Yu, Tianxiao Zou, Sisi Wei, Yani Yu, Guili Ding

“…Pheochromocytomas (PCCs) are rare neuroendocrine tumors originating from the adrenal medulla, particularly uncommon in pediatric populations. …”
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A Rare Presentation of Stage IV Large Cell Neuroendocrine Carcinoma of the Cervix with Metastasis to the Cranium by Neema Hooker, Sveta Mohanan, R. Tucker Burks

“…Neuroendocrine tumors (NETs) are aggressive diseases developing from neuroendocrine cells that most frequently involve the gastro-entero-pancreatic tract and the lung, but more rarely are found in almost all body tissues. …”
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