Sai Swarupa Vulasala, Mayur Virarkar, Dheeraj Gopireddy, Rebecca Waters, Ahmad Alkhasawneh, Ziad Awad, Jessica Maxwell, Nisha Ramani, Sindhu Kumar, Nirmal Onteddu, Ajaykumar C Morani
Neuroendocrine neoplasms (NENs) are rapidly evolving small bowel tumors, and the patients are asymptomatic at the initial stages. Metastases are commonly observed at the time of presentation and diagnosis. This review addresses the small bowel NEN (SB-NEN) and its molecular, histological, and imaging features, which aid diagnosis and therapy guidance. Somatic cell number alterations and epigenetic mutations are studied to be responsible for sporadic and familial SB-NEN. The review also describes the grading of SB-NEN in addition to rare histological findings such as mixed neuroendocrine-non-NENs...
December 18, 2023: Journal of Computer Assisted Tomography