Case Report Of Liver Neuroendocrine Tumor Detected Incidentally During Ovarian Cyst Surgery; Liver Neuroendocrine Tumor and Ovarian Cyst
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neuroendocrine tumor, liver, adnexal mass, serous borderlineAbstract
Introduction: Neuroendocrine tumors, which are also known as carcinoid tumors (also “Argentaffin” or “Kulchitsky Cells”), are derived from embryonal neural crest cells that have the potential to regulate hormone secretion. The aim of this article is to present a liver neuroendocrine tumor that was detected incidentally in a patient who underwent total abdominal hysterectomy and bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy due to an ovarian mass.
Case Report: A 73-year-old female patient applied with complaints of abdominal pain and swelling. A solid mass of 15 cm that originated from the right adnexal area was detected. During the surgery of this mass, the intra-abdominal evaluation revealed a nodular lesion in the liver incidentally. The final pathology result revealed an ovarian serous borderline tumor and liver neuroendocrine tumor.
Conclusion: During abdominal surgery, especially for mass surgery, manual exploration of the abdominal organs is very important even if not detected on preoperative imaging. Incidentally detected masses may be part of a syndrome or primary tumors. A differential diagnosis must also be made in terms of paraneoplastic syndrome.
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