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Successful surgical treatment of a primary liver gastrinoma during pregnancy: a case report.

Delgado J, Delgado B, Sperber AD, Fich A

Department of Gastroenterology and Department of Pathology, Soroka Medical Center and Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel. delgado@bgumail.bgu.ac.il

Primary neuroendocrine tumors of the liver, particularly gastrinomas, are exceptionally rare. We present a case of a sporadic primary liver gastrinoma in a young woman in whom the definitive diagnosis was reached, and surgical therapy was performed during pregnancy.

Published 19 November 2004 in Am J Obstet Gynecol, 191(5): 1716-8.
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