Carcinoid-syndrome: recent advances, current status and controversies.
Curr Opin Endocrinol Diabetes Obes
; 25(1): 22-35, 2018 02.
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ABSTRACT
PURPOSE OF REVIEW To review recent advances and controversies in all aspects of carcinoid-syndrome. RECENT FINDINGS:
Over the last few years there have been a number of advances in all aspects of carcinoid syndrome as well as new therapies. These include new studies on its epidemiology which demonstrate it is increasing in frequency; increasing insights into the pathogenesis of its various clinical manifestations and into its natural history definition of prognostic factors; new methods to verify its presence; the development of new drugs to treat its various manifestations, both initially and in somatostatin-refractory cases; and an increased understanding of the pathogenesis, natural history and management of carcinoid heart disease. These advances have generated several controversies and these are also reviewed.SUMMARY:
There have been numerous advances in all aspects of the carcinoid-syndrome, which is the most common functional syndrome neuroendocrine tumors produce. These advances are leading to new approaches to the management of these patients and in some cases to new controversies.
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MEDLINE
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Síndrome do Carcinoide Maligno
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Oncologia
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Ano de publicação:
2018
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