Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: The coexistence of adrenal tumors (AT) in patients with neuroendocrine tumors (NETs) has not been extensively studied. The aim of our study was to investigate their prevalence and clinical significance in these patients.Materials and methods: We retrospectively studied 447 patients with NETs of all localizations, treated at our department between 2004 and 2012. Diagnosis was established pathohistologically, classification performed accordin...

Introduction: Pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors (PNETs) are generally clinically more indolent than adenocarcinomas. But relevant, clinically applicable prognostic survival factors still need to be more precisely defined.Aim: To identify survival factors in patients with PNETs.Methods: We analyzed 66 patients with PNETs (52.62±13.3 years old) treated at our department during 2003–2010. Patients with insulinomas were not in...