Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: The role of surgery to resect the primary lesion in incurable metastatic small intestinal (SI-NET) and pancreatic neuroendocrine tumours (P-NET) remains controversial. Recent evidence suggests that palliative surgery may increase survival even in asymptomatic patients with non-functioning tumours. The present study investigated the value of palliative resection of the primary tumour in SI-NET and P-NET by systematic literature review and meta-analysis.<p clas...