title: Giant hepatic carcinoid: a rare tumor with a favorable prognosis.
abstract: Primary hepatic carcinoids are rare tumors that are often diagnosed at a locally advanced stage. Their primary nature can only be ascertained after thorough investigations and long-term follow-up to exclude another primary origin. As with secondary neuroendocrine liver tumors, surgical resection remains the mainstay of therapy. Despite their large size and often central location liver resection is often feasible, offering long-term survival and cure to most patients. In selected patients liver transplantation appears to be a good indication for tumors not amenable to liver resection. An aggressive surgical attitude is therefore warranted. We report a large and unusually fast-growing liver carcinoid that appeared only marginally resectable in a patient who remains free of disease four years after surgery.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, St Elizabeth Hospital, Avenue De Fré 206, 1180 Brussels, Belgium.
authors.forename: Serge
authors.identifier: 0000-0002-6869-6660
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Landen
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, St Elizabeth Hospital, Avenue De Fré 206, 1180 Brussels, Belgium.
authors.forename: Maxime
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Elens
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, St Elizabeth Hospital, Avenue De Fré 206, 1180 Brussels, Belgium.
authors.forename: Celine
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Vrancken
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, St Elizabeth Hospital, Avenue De Fré 206, 1180 Brussels, Belgium.
authors.forename: Frederiek
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Nuytens
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, St Elizabeth Hospital, Avenue De Fré 206, 1180 Brussels, Belgium.
authors.forename: Thibault
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Meert
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, Clinique La Ramée, Avenue Boetendael 34, 1180 Brussels, Belgium.
authors.forename: Veronique
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Delugeau