Year 2017 / Volume 109 / Number 8
Letter to the Editor
A rectal neuroendocrine neoplasm

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DOI: 10.17235/reed.2017.4836/2017

Modesto J. Varas Lorenzo, Fernando Muñoz Agel,

Abstract
The incidence of gastric and rectal carcinoids is increasing. This is probably due to endoscopic screening. The prognosis is primarily dependent upon tumor size, aggressiveness (pathology, Ki-67), metastatic disease and stage. However, neuroendocrine carcinoma usually behaves as an adenocarcinoma.
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Publication history

Received: 09/01/2017

Accepted: 16/01/2017

Online First: 19/06/2017

Published: 31/07/2017

Article Online First time: 161 days

Article editing time: 203 days


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