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ea0029p863 | Endocrine tumours and neoplasia | ICEECE2012

Maxillary gland could harbor a neuroendocrine metastasis

Batisse-Lignier M. , Maqdasy S. , Lietin B. , Darcha C. , Desbiez F. , Tauveron I.

Introduction: Pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors (PNET) are rare with an incidence of 3–4/1000,000. These tumors are non functional in 70–80% of the cases. The vast majority of them are differentiated neuroendocrine carcinoma. Distant metastasis detected frequently at the onset of diagnosis. Liver and lymph node metastases are the most frequent localizations. Cerebral, skeletal and pulmonary are not infrequent. Primary and metastatic small cell carcinomas with NE diffe...