The Effect of Surgical Resection on the Prognosis of Gastric Neuroendocrine Tumors |Biomedgrid

Carcinoid tumors are known to cause several pathological pictures by the various peptides they produce, providing the continuity of disease. Previously, these tumors had been considered to be biologically and clinically more positively progressing tumors, unlike adenocarcinomas. However, upon the discovery of biological and clinical differences between pulmonary and intestinal carcinoids, these tumors have begun to be evaluated as a special type of a very different tumor family [1].