Pancreatic endocrine neoplasms: epidemiology and prognosis of pancreatic endocrine tumors.

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Introduction: The pancreatic endocrine tumors are rare. Insulinoma is the most common pancreatic endocrine neoplasm.30% of pancreatic tumors in MEN type I are beta cell tumors. Case Report: The presented case is a 23 year old male with a family history of MEN I syndrome .The patient presented with whipple triad. Radiologic studies revealed two small and round masses in body and tail of pan...

Laparoscopic Surgical Treatment of Neuroendocrine Pancreatic Tumors

Pancreatic Endocrine Tumors (PNETs) represent a rare, but important subset of pancreatic neoplasms. These tumors account for 2–4% of all clinically detected pancreatic tumors. Their overall incidence is approximately 1 of 100 000 people per year [1,2]. PNETs consist of single or multiple benign or malignant neoplasms and are associated with multiple endocrine neoplasia type 1 (MEN1) in 10– 20% ...

Mixed acinar-endocrine carcinoma of the pancreas--a case report.

INTRODUCTION Pancreatic tumors usually display either a ductal, an acinar or an endocrine differentiation. Mixed exocrine and endocrine pancreatic tumors are extremely rare. There have been a few reports of the rare entity of mixed acinar-endocrine carcinoma of the pancreas, where the endocrine cells represent more than 30% of the tumor. We herein describe a case of such a pancreatic tumor in a...

Pancreatic Endocrine Tumors and GIST - Clinical Markers, Epidemiology and Treatment

Differences in survival by histologic type of pancreatic cancer.

OBJECTIVE Although pancreatic cancer has an extremely high case fatality rate, little is known about differences in mortality by histologic types. We examined median survival and risk of mortality for endocrine pancreatic tumors and two types of exocrine tumors, adenocarcinomas, and mucinous tumors. METHOD This analysis included 35,276 pancreatic cancer cases reported to the nine population-b...