• Arch Med Sci · Jan 2021

    Radical surgical treatment of neuroendocrine tumors of the appendix in children - a Polish multicenter study.

    • Małgorzata Panek, Marek Szymczak, Maria Stepaniuk, Wojciech Górecki, Aleksandra Gawłowska-Marciniak, Przemysław Wolak, Dariusz Zbyrad, Marek Rybkiewicz, Kamila Chrobak, Ryszard Noparlik, Jerzy Niedzielski, Przemysław Janik, Jan Nowak, Witold Miaśkiewicz, Andrzej Kamiński, Wojciech Fischer, Bożena Dembowska-Bagińska, and Piotr Kaliciński.
    • Department of Pediatric Surgery and Organ Transplantation, The Children's Memorial Health Institute, Warsaw, Poland.
    • Arch Med Sci. 2021 Jan 1; 17 (4): 1128-1131.

    IntroductionThe aim of the study was to examine management of pediatric appendiceal neuroendocrine tumors (ANETs) in Poland.MethodsRecords of 27 patients with ANET diagnosed incidentally after appendectomy in the last decade.ResultsWell-differentiated NET G1/G2 was diagnosed in 25 and well-differentiated neuroendocrine carcinoma G3 in 2 patients. Extended surgery was performed primarily in one instance and secondarily in 10 patients (right hemicolectomy in 9, ileocecal resection in 1) without adjuvant chemotherapy. Follow-up range was 1-121 months. Recurrence after secondary surgery was observed in 1 (3.7%) patient.ConclusionsApplying ENETS guidelines resulted in 100% overall survival of patients with NET.Copyright: © 2021 Termedia & Banach.

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