Emergency therapy for liver metastases from advanced VIPoma: surgery or transarterial chemoembolization?
VIPoma is a rare neuroendocrine tumor (NET) with a high potential to develop hepatic metastases and poor prognosis. The primitive tumor is nonsymptomatic and usually localized within the pancreas. Liver metastasis drives the prognosis and induces profuse watery diarrhea or renal failure. We herein p...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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SAGE Publishing
2016-09-01
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Series: | Therapeutic Advances in Medical Oncology |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1177/1758834016656495 |