Treatment of Liver Metastases in patients with Neuroendocrine Tumors

So Neuroendocrine Tumors often present with large volume Liver Metastases and because these are relatively Indolent Tumors the patient often does not know that he has a Neuroendocrine Tumors specially those who have non-functioning Neuroendocrine Tumors they don't know till such time that there liver is studded with metastases and they have large volume disease from the Neuroendocrine Tumor which effects the liver and often these patients present with some non specific complaints of a dragging sensation of a pain in the liver or sometimes they are incidentally picked up when an ultrasound or a CT Scan is done for some other purpose. And that leads to the you try and look for what are this tumors and often they find that these are Metastatic Neuroendocrine Tumors and because these patients present with such large volume disease surgery or a very selective kind of a procedure like a Transarterial Chemoembolization or RFA or Microwave Ablation is often not an option.

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