A Direct Comparison of Patients With Hereditary and Sporadic Pancreatic Neuroendocrine Tumors: Evaluation of Clinical Course, Prognostic Factors and Genotype-Phenotype Correlations.

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Introduction: Pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors (PNETs) in hereditary syndromes pose a significant challenge to clinicians. The rarity of these syndromes and PNETs itself make it difficult to directly compare them with sporadic PNETs. Despite research suggesting differences between these two entities, the same approach is used in hereditary and sporadic PNETs. Methods: We included 63 patients with hereditary PNET...

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