ENETS Consensus Guidelines for the Standards of Care in Neuroendocrine Tumors: Pre- and Perioperative Therapy in Patients with Neuroendocrine Tumors.

Neuroendocrine tumors of the small intestine are the most common causes of the carcinoid syndrome. Carcinoid heart disease occurs in more than half of the patients with the carcinoid syndrome. Patients with carcinoid heart disease who Received: December 5, 2016 Accepted after revision: February 10, 2017 Published online: March 2, 2017 Gregory Kaltsas Sector of Endocrinology, Department of Pathophysiology National and Kapodistrian University of Athens Mikras Assias 75, Goudi, GR–11527 Athens (Greece) E-Mail gkaltsas @ endo.gr © 2017 The Author(s) Published by S. Karger AG, Basel www.karger.com/nen Th is article is licensed under the Creative Commons AttributionNonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BYNC-ND) (http://www.karger.com/Services/OpenAccessLicense). Usage and distribution for commercial purposes as well as any distribution of modifi ed material requires written permission. D ow nl oa de d by : U pp sa la U ni ve rs ite ts bi bl . 13 0. 23 8. 49 .9 9 1/ 4/ 20 18 2 :0 0: 56 P M