Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Carcinoid crisis, as an entity is poorly defined, but can be seen in patients with small bowel NET tumours after open bowel surgery or tumour unrelated procedures as cardiovascular instability (CI). Recent evidence suggests that cardiovascular instability (CI) during NET surgery is more common than previously considered.Aims and methods: We audited the incidence of CI during procedures and determined the relationship to perioperative octreo...

Introduction: There remains controversy about which patients benefit from removal of their primary small bowel tumour and whether this should be performed in a specialist tertiary referral hospital as an elective procedure. Part of the decision making and consenting process in patients with metastases will be a shared decision about surgery with the patient in light of symptoms, morbidity from surgery and survival. The aim of this study was to elucidate important institution s...