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Neuroendokrinní nádory pankratu-pohled chirurgia

Title in English Pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors therapy-surgeon's perspective
Authors

KALA Zdeněk HLAVSA Jan PROCHÁZKA Vladimír KYSELA Petr MAREK Filip SVATOŇ Roman

Year of publication 2010
Type Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source Onkologie
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Medicine

Citation
Keywords pancreas; neuroendocrine tumor; surgery
Description The authors put forward a review article summarizing current opinion in diagnostics and therapy of pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors. They present actual TNM classification of these tumors highlighting CT, MRI, EUS and octreosan as standard imaging methods. In the field of therapy, radical, RO resection, which brings the best overall survival, is accented. They also accept the possibility of debulking resections and liver transplantation in the cases of local advanced and metastatic diseases respectively. They point out the different prognosis of pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors and pancreatic cancer. At the end the authors emphasize the importace of multimodal aproach and cooperation, which is demostrated in two case reports.

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