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Peritoneal carcinomatosis from small intestinal neuroendocrine tumors: Clinical course and genetic profiling.
Surgery - 1 Dec 2014
Norlén Olov, Edfeldt Katarina, Akerstrom Goran, Westin Gunnar, Hellman Per, Bjorklund Peyman, Stalberg Peter
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BACKGROUND: One-fifth of all patients with small-intestinal neuroendocrine tumors (SI-NETs) present with or develop peritoneal carcinomatosis (PC). Our aim was to determine the prognosis and genetic profiles of tumors in patients with PC compared with tumors in patients without PC. METHODS: We included SI-NET patients (cases with PC, n = 73, and controls without PC, n = 468) who underwent operation between 1985...
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