Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Maintaining adequate nutritional status can be a challenge for patients with small intestinal neuroendocrine tumours (NETs) and mesenteric lymph node metastasis which can form a mesenteric mass. The preferred treatment option would be resection of this mesenteric mass, however, due to adjacent small bowel loops there is a risk of developing short bowel syndrome (SBS). If the mesenteric mass is not resected there is a risk of developing inoperable...