Turk J Gastroenterol
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Turk J Gastroenterol · Oct 2019
Palliative resection of primary site in advanced gastroenteropancreatic neuroendocrine tumors improves survivals.
Gastroenteropancreatic neuroendocrine tumors are rarely seen and have heterogeneous clinical outcomes. Mostly half of the patients had metastatic disease at presentation. Palliative resection of primary site in metastatic disease is still controversial. The aim of this study was to find out the influence of resection of primary tumor site on progression-free survival and overall survival in metastatic non-functioning gastroenteropancreatic neuroendocrine tumors. The secondary end point is to determine the prognostic factors influencing the survivals. ⋯ Gastroenteropancreatic neuroendocrine tumors with primary site resected had improved survivals when compared to the unresected group.
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Turk J Gastroenterol · Oct 2019
Impaired thiol/disulfide homeostasis in patients with mild acute pancreatitis.
The aim of this study was to compare the dynamic thiol/disulfide (SS) homeostasis and ischemia-modified albumin (IMA) concentration between healthy subjects and patients with mild acute pancreatitis (AP). ⋯ We found that mild AP may affect serum thiol and SS levels, and cause impaired thiol/SS homeostasis.