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EXCLI J. 2019 May 21;18:273-276. doi: 10.17179/excli2019-1220. eCollection 2019.

Successful palliative peptide receptor radionuclide therapy for impending compression of vena cava due to unresectable liver metastasis of neuroendocrine tumor.

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Bahar Ataeinia, Christina Loberg, Hanna Kravets, Mohsen Beheshti, Dirk von Mallek, Felix M Mottaghy, Alexander Heinzel

Affiliations

  1. Department of Nuclear Medicine, University Hospital RWTH Aachen, Aachen, Germany.
  2. Non-Communicable Diseases Research Center, Endocrinology and Metabolism Population Sciences Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
  3. Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Maastricht University Medical Center, Maastricht, The Netherlands.

PMID: 31338000 PMCID: PMC6635723 DOI: 10.17179/excli2019-1220

Abstract

We present the case of a 77 year old male patient with metastatic pancreatic neuroendocrine tumor (NET). The patient was initially treated by extensive surgical resection that however, led to severe complications with delayed recovery. During follow-up, a number of new liver metastases were detected, one of which was in segment I with impending compression of the inferior vena cava. Due to age and general condition of the patient, instead of further surgical treatment, the patient received four cycles of

Keywords: 177Lu-DOTATOC; PRRT; metastasis; neuroendocrine tumors

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