Endocrine Abstracts

The incidence of gastric neuroendocrine tumors (GNT) is increasing, what can be explained by the increased detection caused by the common use of the endoscopy and the pervasive use of acid suppressive therapy leading to enterochromatofine like cells proliferation. There are numerous new diagnostic/therapeutic GNT methods in use like: EUS, SRS, somatostatin therapy and 90Y/177Lu-DOTA-TATE radiotherapy.Materials and methods: In 1998–2008 37 patients w...