How Long to Continue Surveillance in Patients Following ‘Curative Resection’ of Primary Small Bowel Tumors?

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Introduction: Around 40-50% of patients with small bowel (SB) NETs have metastatic disease at the time of presentation. The majority of the remainder proceed to surgery for attempted curative resection. The optimal duration of surveillance post ‘curative surgical’ resection of primary SB NETs is unknown.

Aim(s): A retrospective analysis to determine the time to development of metastases following resection of primary tumor +/- mesenteric disease in an attempted curative resection.

Materials and methods: The data was analysed using Microsoft Excel and Graph Pad Prizm 5.0. One-hundred and thirty-eight patients with SB NETs were identified, of these the primary had been resected in 100 patients. Only patients in whom current disease state was known were included.

Conference: 9th Annual ENETSConcerence (2012)

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Authors: Srirajaskanthan R, Ahmed A, Heaton N, Ramage J,

Keywords: recurrent disease, small bowel, surgery,