Improvement of metastatic glucagonoma by hepatic artery embolization

Jian, Raymond; Seyrig, Jacques‐Arnaud; Roche, Anne; Modigliani, R; Lenormand, Y; Hautefeuille, M

doi:10.1016/0016-5085(84)90751-0

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“…For metastatic islet cell tumors such as carcinoid, glucagonoma, gastrinoma, and non-functioning tumors, percutaneous transcatheter arterial embolization (TAE) has been used since 1977 as an alternative to surgical therapy. [9][10][11][12][13][14] This approach has been useful in some instances. However, the usefulness of TAE for metastatic insulinoma lesions has not been fully elucidated.…”

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Malignant insulinoma presenting a non-functioning metastatic liver tumor 14 years after resection of the primary tumor

Kobayashi

Kawa

Kobayashi

et al. 1998

Journal of Gastroenterology

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A 58-year-old woman who had undergone resection of insulinoma 14 year earlier visited our clinic complaining of abdominal discomfort. Computerized tomographic scan showed multiple liver tumors, and a diagnosis of metastatic tumor of malignant islet cell tumor was confirmed histologically. No oversecretion of hormones or hypoglycemic episode was observed on readmission. Thus, the insulinoma seemed to have transformed to a clinically non-functioning tumor. The patient was treated with transcatheter arterial embolization, resulting in clinical improvement with marked reduction in tumor size. Features of interest in this case included; (1) transformation to non-functioning metastatic liver tumor 14 years after resection of insulinoma, (2) the usefulness of transcatheter arterial embolization for multiple metastatic tumor of malignant islet cell tumor.

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