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

Jorge Delgado; Bertha Delgado; Ami D Sperber; Alex Fich

doi:10.1016/j.ajog.2004.03.024

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

Am J Obstet Gynecol. 2004 Nov;191(5):1716-8. doi: 10.1016/j.ajog.2004.03.024.

Authors

Jorge Delgado¹, Bertha Delgado, Ami D Sperber, Alex Fich

Affiliation

¹ 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

PMID: 15547548
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajog.2004.03.024

Abstract

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.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Adult
Diagnosis, Differential
Female
Gastrinoma / diagnosis*
Gastrinoma / diagnostic imaging
Gastrinoma / surgery
Humans
Infant, Newborn
Liver Neoplasms / diagnosis*
Liver Neoplasms / diagnostic imaging
Liver Neoplasms / surgery
Male
Pregnancy
Pregnancy Complications, Neoplastic / diagnosis*
Pregnancy Complications, Neoplastic / diagnostic imaging
Pregnancy Complications, Neoplastic / surgery
Pregnancy Trimester, Second
Prenatal Diagnosis*
Radionuclide Imaging
Tomography, X-Ray Computed