Endocrine Abstracts

Background: In southeast Scotland patients who have undergone resection of small intestinal neuroendocrine tumours (SI NETs) with curative intent are followed up by the NET team for recurrence. ENETs guidelines are that this should involve cross sectional imaging and hormonal assessment. During follow up we identified a number of patients with residual disease post surgery, rather than developing metachronous metastases. In 2019 we changed our policy to arrange post-operative ...

A case is reported of a man with stage IV grade 2 pancreatic VIPoma. At diagnosis he had several features which may have expedited the diagnosis including refractory diarrhoea containing undigested foodstuffs, alcohol-related flushing, electrolyte abnormalities and intestinal oedema on imaging. Symptom control was challenging. There was no benefit from creon, loperamide or codeine and escalation to both short and long acting somatostatin analogues was futile. Consistent with a...