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<language>eng</language>
<publisher>Science and Education Publishing</publisher>
<journalTitle>American Journal of Medical Case Reports</journalTitle>
<eissn>2374-216X</eissn>
<publicationDate>2015-06-10</publicationDate>
<volume>3</volume>
<issue>7</issue>
<startPage>205</startPage>
<endPage>208</endPage>
<doi>10.12691/ajmcr-3-7-6</doi>
<publisherRecordId>AJMCR2015376</publisherRecordId>
<documentType>article</documentType>
<title language="eng">Metastatic Nonfunctional Pancreatic Neuroendocrine Tumor - Case Report and Review of the Literature</title>
<authors>
<author>
<name>Ludmila Tankova</name>
<affiliationId>1</affiliationId>
</author>
<author>
<name>Vanya Gerova</name>
<affiliationId>1</affiliationId>
</author>
<author>
<name>Plamen Getsov</name>
<affiliationId>2</affiliationId>
</author>
<author>
<name>Radislav Nakov</name>
<email>radislav.nakov@abv.bg</email>
<affiliationId>2</affiliationId>
</author>
<author>
<name>Stanislav Churchev</name>
<affiliationId>2</affiliationId>
</author>
<author>
<name>Ivan Terziev</name>
<affiliationId>3</affiliationId>
</author>
<author>
<name>Irena Kostadinova</name>
<affiliationId>4</affiliationId>
</author>
<author>
<name>Miroslava Vitkova</name>
<affiliationId>4</affiliationId>
</author>
<author>
<name>Ventsislav Nakov</name>
<affiliationId>4</affiliationId>
</author>
<author>
<name>Damyan Damyanov</name>
<affiliationId>4</affiliationId>
</author>
<author>
<name>Nina Topuzanska</name>
<affiliationId>4</affiliationId>
</author>

</authors>
<affiliationsList>
<affiliationName affiliationId="1">Clinical Center of Gastroenterology, University Hospital, "Queen Joanna", Sofia, Bulgaria</affiliationName>

<affiliationName affiliationId="2">Department of Radiology, University Hospital, "Queen Joanna", Sofia, Bulgaria</affiliationName>


<affiliationName affiliationId="3">Department of Pathology, University Hospital, "Queen Joanna", Sofia, Bulgaria</affiliationName>
<affiliationName affiliationId="4">Medical University, Central Laboratory of Nuclear Medicine, Sofia, Bulgaria</affiliationName>




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<abstract language="eng">We present a 56-year-old patient with liver metastases from nonfunctional pancreatic neuroendocrine tumor. The disease is found incidentally in a patient with nonspecific symptoms. Conventional abdominal ultrasound establishes several liver lesions mimicking hemangiomas. On contrast enhancement ultrasonography hypervascularized secondary liver lesions are detected. Subsequent imaging methods and biochemical tests diagnose a pancreatic neuroendocrine metastatic tumor. Left-sided pancreatectomy with splenectomy is carried out. The patient is in good general condition six months after initiation of combination therapy with everolimus and sandostatin LAR depot. Tc-99m-tektrotyd single photon emission computed tomography-CT hybrid imaging shows reduced accumulation of the radiopharmaceutical in the liver parenchyma without data of pancreatic tumor.</abstract>
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<keywords language="eng"><keyword>neuroendocrine tumor</keyword>
<keyword>pancreas</keyword>
<keyword>liver metastases</keyword>
<keyword>imaging methods</keyword>
</keywords>
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