CT findings of non-functioning neuroendocrine pancreatic tumors

✍ Scribed by M. Secil; A.Y. Goktay; Y. Oksuzler; O. Sagol; O. Dicle; E. Igci; T. Pirnar

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2002
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 154 KB
• Volume: 26
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0895-6111
• DOI: 10.1016/s0895-6111(01)00024-6

✦ Synopsis

Neuroendocrine tumors are rare neoplasms of the pancreas, representing 0.5% of all pancreatic tumors. Approximately, one-third of neuroendocrine tumors are hormonally inactive and called non-functioning neuroendocrine tumors. As these tumors remain clinically silent in their course of growth, they may attain great sizes without causing apparent clinical ®ndings and commonly present in advanced stage. We report three cases of non-functioning neuroendocrine tumors with large sizes and discuss the radiological ®ndings.