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ArticleJournal of gastrointestinal oncology2015

Transition of a pancreatic neuroendocrine tumor from ghrelinoma to insulinoma: a case report.

Aman Chauhan, Robert A Ramirez, Melissa A Stevens, Leigh Anne Burns, Eugene A Woltering

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Article in Journal of gastrointestinal oncology, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3citing papers in PubMed
0.4field-weighted citation impact, top 32% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed, 4 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Aman Chauhan1 Department of Internal Medicine-Pediatrics, 2 Department of Internal Medicine-Hematology and Oncology, 3 Department of Surgery, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, School of Medicine, New Orleans, USA.
Robert A Ramirez1 Department of Internal Medicine-Pediatrics, 2 Department of Internal Medicine-Hematology and Oncology, 3 Department of Surgery, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, School of Medicine, New Orleans, USA.
Melissa A Stevens1 Department of Internal Medicine-Pediatrics, 2 Department of Internal Medicine-Hematology and Oncology, 3 Department of Surgery, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, School of Medicine, New Orleans, USA.
Leigh Anne Burns1 Department of Internal Medicine-Pediatrics, 2 Department of Internal Medicine-Hematology and Oncology, 3 Department of Surgery, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, School of Medicine, New Orleans, USA.
Eugene A Woltering1 Department of Internal Medicine-Pediatrics, 2 Department of Internal Medicine-Hematology and Oncology, 3 Department of Surgery, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, School of Medicine, New Orleans, USA.
Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center New Orleans · US

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors (PNETs) are rare with an incidence of 1 in 100,000 populations. PNETs can present either as a functional or non-functional tumor. In functional tumors the symptoms are a result of hormones such as insulin, gastrin, glucagon and vasoactive intestinal peptide (VIP) or others. Ghrelin is a 28 amino acid peptide discovered in 1999 and is thought to be involved in various physiologic and pathologic processes. Due to relatively recent discovery of this hormone, its functions in normal homeostasis and its association with various pathologic processes are still being uncovered. PNETs are a rare entity and the natural history of disease is not well known. We have presented a first ever case of metastatic PNET which presented as a ghrelinoma and later transformed into a symptomatic insulinoma. This case gives us a glimpse into an unusual variant of metastatic PNET. It also tells us that change in functional tumor biology can sometime be more morbid than the metastatic disease itself.

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ghrelinomainsulinomaPancreatic neuroendocrine tumor (PNET)

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PMID25830049
PMCPMC4311091
OpenAlexW2143999847

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