NEUROLOGY

Neuroendocrine Tumors of the Lung

Nov 3, 2016 by in NEUROLOGY Comments Off on Neuroendocrine Tumors of the Lung

Fig. 10.1 Bronchoscopic visualization of intrabronchial typical carcinoid 10.3.2.2 Histopathology and Immunohistochemistry Typical carcinoids are characterized by organoid, trabecular, insular, palisading, ribbon, or rosette-like growth patterns separated by a fibrovascular…

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Pheochromocytoma and Paraganglioma

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Syndrome Gene HNPGL sPGL PCC Multiple PGL Bilateral PCC Malignancy risk Parentof origin preference MEN2 RET Extremely rare − ++ − ++ ± − VHL VHL Rare + ++ +…

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Circulating Biomarkers in Neuroendocrine Tumours

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Biomarkers Specificity CgA, CgB, pancreastatin H PP, NSE, neurokinin, neurotensin I HCG-α, HCG-β L The chromogranin family and pancreatic polypeptide, neuron-specific enolase (NSE) and alpha HCG constitute general markers for…

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Thyroid Cancer

Nov 3, 2016 by in NEUROLOGY Comments Off on Thyroid Cancer

Tumors Frequency % 10-year survival (%) Papillary carcinoma 80 93  Classic papillary    Follicular variant    Macrofollicular variant    Oncocytic variant    Clear cell variant    Diffuse sclerosing variant    Solid variant    Cribriform carcinoma    Papillary carcinoma…

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Gastrinoma

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Inappropriate hypergastrinemia – gastric pH <2 Gastrinoma/Zollinger-Ellison syndrome Helicobacter pylori antral predominate Retained gastric antrum Gastric outlet obstruction Short bowel syndrome Appropriate hypergastrinemia – associated with hypochlorhydria Pernicious anemia Chronic…

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Somatostatinoma

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Fig. 16.1 (a, b) Microscopic appearances of ampullary somatostatinoma. Haematoxylin and eosin staining (left) and strongly positive immunostaining with somatostatin (right) (ANNALS IMAGE) Psammoma bodies (round collections of calcium that…

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Epidemiology of Neuroendocrine Tumors

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Location Within NETs (%) Within GEP-NETs Incidence SEER (/100,000) Incidence (% of primary site) 5-year OS (%) GEP-NETs 67  5.25 <2 75–82  Gastric  9–20 0.3 1 45–64  Small intestine  39–42…

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Targeted Therapies

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Gene Pancreatic NET (%) n = 48 Intestinal NET (%) n = 68 MEN-1 44 2 DAXX 25 0 ATRX 18 0 TSC2 9 0 PTEN 7 0 PIK3CA 1 2 VHL 0 2…

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