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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Main Authors: Johann Dréanic, Céline Lepère, Mostafa El Hajjam, Hervé Gouya, Philippe Rougier, Romain Coriat
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2016-09-01
Series:Therapeutic Advances in Medical Oncology
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/1758834016656495