100 Cases of Pancreatic Resections for Pancreatic Neuroendocrine Tumors. The Royal Free Hospital Experience Abstract #1234
Introduction: Pancreatic neuroendocrine tumours (pNETs) are rare neoplasms of variable grade of malignancy. Surgery is the only curative treatment.
Aim(s): To analyse the morbidity and mortality rate, the disease free survival (DFS) and overall survival (OS) following resection for p-NETs in a single high-volume centre.
Materials and methods: From April 1998 until May 2014, 100 patients underwent pancreatic resection for p-NET at Royal Free Hospital. Morbidity was defined based on Dindo-Clavien postoperative classification, mortality rate was defined as related to surgery until 90th post-operative day.
Conference: 12th Annual ENETS Conference (2015)
Category: Surgical treatment
Presenting Author: Domenico Tamburrino
Authors: Tamburrino D, Valente R, Inama M, Toumpanakis C, Thirlwell C, Luong T, Davidson B, Imber C, Malago' M, Rahman Z, Sharma D, Caplyn M, Fusai G K
Keywords:
pancreatic neuroendocrine tumor, Surgery
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