Case of an abnormal procalcitonin‐producing metastatic pancreatic neuroendocrine tumor

Autor:	Wen Tang, Duan-Min Hu, Wei-Zhen Wang, Longjiang Xu
Rok vydání:	2020
Předmět:	congenital hereditary and neonatal diseases and abnormalities Pathology medicine.medical_specialty liver metastatic Pancreatic neuroendocrine tumor lcsh:Medicine Case Report Case Reports 030204 cardiovascular system & hematology pancreatic neuroendocrine tumor Procalcitonin 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine parasitic diseases medicine lcsh:R5-920 Metastatic PNET Unusual case business.industry lcsh:R food and beverages General Medicine bacterial infections and mycoses medicine.disease 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis biomarker Biomarker (medicine) Immunohistochemistry lcsh:Medicine (General) business procalcitonin hormones hormone substitutes and hormone antagonists
Zdroj:	Clinical Case Reports Clinical Case Reports, Vol 8, Iss 11, Pp 2269-2272 (2020)
ISSN:	2050-0904
DOI:	10.1002/ccr3.3187
Popis:	Procalcitonin (PCT) is widely used to diagnose a bacterial infection. An increased serum PCT can also be observed in tumors. We presented an unusual case of a metastatic PNET producing and secreting PCT. Immunohistochemistry was used to demonstrate that PCT can be secreted by PanNET.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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