False positives and false negatives in neuroendocrine tumors diagnosis: clinical reports

Tumori. 2010 Sep-Oct;96(5):827-32. doi: 10.1177/030089161009600536.

Abstract

Differential diagnosis NETs may be highly challenging. In order to exclude conditions that may mimic a neuroendocrine neoplasms, a deep knowledge of all the aspects of the disease, together with an adequate capacity to interpret clinical data and imaging findings and to put them in right correlation, are strongly warranted. Patients which suspected neuroendocrine neoplasms should be referred to reference centers to receive optimal multidisciplinary care.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Aged
  • Biomarkers, Tumor / analysis
  • Carcinoid Tumor / diagnosis
  • Chromogranin A / analysis
  • Cushing Syndrome / diagnosis
  • Diagnosis, Differential
  • False Negative Reactions
  • False Positive Reactions
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Hypoglycemia / etiology
  • Insulinoma / complications
  • Insulinoma / diagnosis*
  • Lung Neoplasms / complications
  • Lung Neoplasms / diagnosis*
  • Middle Aged
  • Munchausen Syndrome / diagnosis*
  • Neuroendocrine Tumors / chemistry
  • Neuroendocrine Tumors / complications
  • Neuroendocrine Tumors / diagnosis*
  • Octreotide
  • Pancreatic Neoplasms / complications
  • Pancreatic Neoplasms / diagnosis*
  • Positron-Emission Tomography / methods

Substances

  • Biomarkers, Tumor
  • Chromogranin A
  • Octreotide