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. 2014 Jan;7(1):27-32.

A woman with metastatic pancreatic neuroendocrine tumor

Alexander N Shoushtari  1 , Anne M Covey  1 , Ghazi Zaatari  2 , Ali Shamseddine  2 , Andrew S Epstein  1 , Ali Haydar  2 , Mohamed Naghy  3 , Deborah Mukherji  2 , David P Kelsen  4 , Ghassan K Abou-Alfa  4 , Eileen M O'Reilly  4
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A woman with metastatic pancreatic neuroendocrine tumor

Alexander N Shoushtari et al. Gastrointest Cancer Res. 2014 Jan.
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Figures

Figure 1.
Figure 1.
MRI of the abdomen at presentation, with contrast. Representative slices with (a) fat suppressed and (b) T2-weighted views. There were numerous hypodense metastatic infiltrates interspersed with hyperdense benign cysts.
Figure 2.
Figure 2.
Hematoxylin and eosin–stained core biopsies of (a) pancreas (×10), (b) pancreas (×100), and (c) liver (×40) demonstrating metastatic PNETs.
Figure 3.
Figure 3.
Indium-111 octreotide scan obtained at diagnosis demonstrating hepatic and supraclavicular lymph node metastases.
Figure 4.
Figure 4.
MRI of the abdomen with contrast after 2 months of octreotide treatment. (a) Fat-suppressed and (b) T2-weighted views.
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