Nan Xinyi, Dharmawardhane Anoj
Surgical & Critical Care Division, Gold Coast Health & Hospital Services, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia.
Department of Surgery, Darling Downs Hospital & Health Services, Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia.
J Surg Case Rep. 2022 Jun 22;2022(6):rjac308. doi: 10.1093/jscr/rjac308. eCollection 2022 Jun.
Neuroendocrine tumours (NETs) are rare tumours derived from the neuroendocrine cell system, arising across a wide range of organs, most commonly the gastrointestinal tract and bronchopulmonary symptoms. Although NETs can metastasis widely throughout the body, cardiac metastasis is rare with an incidence of 2-4% and usually presents in the presence of extensive metastasis elsewhere. Suprasternal metastasis to the neck is exceedingly rare with <20 cases reported in the literature. We report the case of a 71-year-old female with concurrent cardiac and suprasternal metastasis at diagnosis of terminal ileal NET.
神经内分泌肿瘤(NETs)是起源于神经内分泌细胞系统的罕见肿瘤,可发生于多种器官,最常见于胃肠道和支气管肺部。尽管NETs可广泛转移至全身,但心脏转移罕见,发生率为2% - 4%,通常在其他部位存在广泛转移时出现。胸骨上窝转移至颈部极为罕见,文献报道不足20例。我们报告一例71岁女性,在诊断为回肠末端NET时同时出现心脏和胸骨上窝转移。