title: Successful surgical treatment of a primary liver gastrinoma during pregnancy: a case report.
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.
authors.affiliation: 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
authors.forename: Jorge
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Delgado
authors.forename: Bertha
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Delgado
authors.forename: Ami D
authors.initials: AD
authors.lastname: Sperber
authors.forename: Alex
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Fich
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D015408:Gastrinoma / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008113:Liver Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery; D008297:Male; D011247:Pregnancy; D011252:Pregnancy Complications, Neoplastic / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery; D011262:Pregnancy Trimester, Second; D011296:Prenatal Diagnosis; D011877:Radionuclide Imaging; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed