Orthotopic liver or multivisceral transplantation as treatment of metastatic neuroendocrine tumors
Michael Olausson, Styrbjörn Friman, Gustaf Herlenius, Christian Cahlin, Ola Nilsson, Svante Jansson, Bo Wängberg, Håkan Ahlman – 22 February 2007 – Liver transplantation can be a therapeutic option for individual patients with neuroendocrine tumors metastatic only to the liver. In this consecutive series of 15 patients (5 multivisceral and 10 orthotopic liver transplantations) with well‐differentiated carcinoids, or endocrine pancreatic tumors, we allowed higher proliferation rate (Ki67 <10%), large tumor burden, and higher age than previous studies.