Pattern and Clinical Predictors of Lymph Node Involvement in Neuroendocrine Neoplasms of the Pancreas

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Introduction: Pancreatic neuroendocrine neoplasms (PNENs) are often indolent without pathological lymph node metastasis (pN1). Therefore, in patients with low risk of pN1, a lymphadenectomy could be avoided.

Aim(s): To construct a model for predicting the risk of pN1 prior to surgical resection.

Materials and methods: Databases from the University of Verona and the Beaujon Hospital were queried. Data of all patients with resected (R0 or R1) non-functioning PNEN between 1993 and 2009 were analyzed.

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Authors: Partelli S, Cherif R, Boninsegna L, Gaujoux S, Crippa S,

Keywords: Pancreatic neuroendocrine neoplasms, lymph node metastases, predictors,