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  • A retrospective study was conducted on 55 patients diagnosed with gastroenteropancreatic neuroendocrine tumors (GEP-NETs) at The Clinical Emergency County Hospital Craiova, focusing on epidemiological and clinical aspects.
  • The majority of patients were older adults, with a mean age of 66.4 years, and GEP-NETs were most commonly found in the colon, specifically the ascending colon.
  • Notable findings included a higher prevalence of arterial hypertension in patients with colon neuroendocrine tumors (C-NET) and an overall increase in GEP-NET cases in recent years.

Article Abstract

We conducted a retrospective study based on 55 patients diagnosed with gastroenteropancreatic neuroendocrine tumors (GEP-NETs)-gastric (G-NET), small bowel (SB-NET) and colonic (C-NET), hospitalized and evaluated within the Surgical, Gastroenterology and Internal Medicine Clinics, in The Clinical Emergency County Hospital Craiova, between May 2016 and April 2024. We aimed in this study to analyze the epidemiological aspects and clinical characteristics of patients with GEP-NETs. In our study group, the patients' ages were between 39-82 years, with a mean of 66.40 (±12.46) years. The incidence of GEP-NETs cases in young patients was insignificant low-1 case. 45.46% of all patients lived in urban areas. 16.36% were G-NET, 14,54 were SB-NET and 69.09% were C-NET. The GEP-NETs diagnosis was established by immunohistochemistry features. Also, we observed that the most frequency localization was on the ascending colon, while the rarest on the colon it is located on the transverse colon and the rarest is on the small bowel, in spite of the generally literature data. From the C-NET group, 49.09% have been presented arterial hypertension probable explained by serotonin and dopamine secretion an inflammatory through phenotype expression and just one patient has been presented an erythematous psoriasis, which could be also explained by the same neurotransmitter's involvement as a possible purposed mechanism. The results obtained in our study demonstrate that could be a common profile of GEP-NETs patients through epidemiological general information and clinical characteristics. Also, we demonstrate that, in the last years, the incidence increased for the GEP-NETs.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11447499PMC
http://dx.doi.org/10.12865/CHSJ.50.02.11DOI Listing

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