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** Insulin-secreting neuroendocrine tumor ( insulinoma ) of the pancreas
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** Other cases are due to congenital adrenal hyperplasia or an adenoma ( tumor ) of the adrenal gland.
** The tumor has been biopsied prior to removal or there is local spillage of tumor during surgery, confined to the flank.
** N1: regional lymph node metastasis present ; ( at some sites: tumor spread to closest or small number of regional lymph nodes )
** N3: tumor spread to more distant or numerous regional lymph nodes ( N3 is not used at all sites )
** Brain tumor: The risk in children increases significantly with higher amount of passive smoking, even if the mother doesn't smoke, thus not restricting risk to prenatal exposure during pregnancy.
** and pancreas
** the head, neck, and body of the pancreas ( but not the tail, which is located in the splenorenal ligament )
** γ1-expressed in virtually all tissues, including heart, muscle, colon, kidney, pancreas, and spleen
** Can progress to choledocholithiasis ( gallstones in the bile duct ) and gallstone pancreatitis ( inflammation of the pancreas )
neuroendocrine and tumor
A pheochromocytoma or phaeochromocytoma ( PCC ) is a neuroendocrine tumor of the medulla of the adrenal glands ( originating in the chromaffin cells ), or extra-adrenal chromaffin tissue that failed to involute after birth and secretes excessive amounts of catecholamines, usually noradrenaline ( norepinephrine ), and adrenaline ( epinephrine ) to a lesser extent.
* Neuroblastoma, a neuroendocrine tumor of any neural crest tissue of the sympathetic nervous system
By light microscopy, the differential diagnosis includes related neuroendocrine tumors, such as carcinoid tumor, neuroendocrine carcinoma, and medullary carcinoma of the thyroid.
It is a neuroendocrine tumor, arising from any neural crest element of the sympathetic nervous system ( S. N. S .).
* Tumors that are CD56-positive are myeloma, myeloid leukemia, neuroendocrine tumors, Wilms ' tumor, neuroblastoma, NK / T cell lymphomas, pancreatic acinar cell carcinoma, pheochromocytoma, paraganglioma, small cell lung carcinoma, and the Ewing's Sarcoma Family of Tumors.
Researchers identified the cancer as a neuroendocrine tumor, and found identical chromosomal rearrangements in all the cancer cells.
Carcinoid ( also carcinoid tumor ) is a slow-growing type of neuroendocrine tumor originating in the cells of the neuroendocrine system.
Pheochromocytoma is a rare neuroendocrine tumor that results in the release of too much epinephrine and norepinephrine, hormones that control heart rate, metabolism, and blood pressure.
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