Author/Authors :
Ahadi, Mahsa Cancer Research Center - Shohada Medical Hospital - Shahid Beheshti University Medical Sciences - Tehran, IR Iran , Mousavi, Reza Cancer Research Center - Shohada Medical Hospital - Shahid Beheshti University Medical Sciences - Tehran, IR Iran
Abstract :
Introduction: A neuroendocrine tumor has known as a neuroendocrine system tumor. Rarely, neuroendocrines have found in other areas, like the liver, gallbladder, bile ducts, kidneys, ovaries or testicles.
Case Presentation: We have a 41-year-old woman has referred to our medical center, complaining of fullness and vague pain on her right upper quadrant. The liver scan, sonography, MRI demonstrated multi lobular cysts in 6th and 7 th seg-ments of her liver and chest imaging was normal, oc-terotid scan has not shwon metastatic neuroendocrine tour of liver.
Conclusions: Liver could be the location of metastatic neuroendo-crine tumors, for example metastatic carcinoid tumor. Therefore, it was so important to diffrentatiate pri-mary neuroendocrine tumor from metastatic neuro-endocrine tumors.