Year 2022 / Volume 114 / Number 1
Editorial
Small pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors: observing and monitoring or prompt surgical resection

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DOI: 10.17235/reed.2021.8419/2021

Javier A Cienfuegos, Luis Hurtado-Pardo, Fernando Rotellar,

Abstract
Over recent decades there has been a significant increase in the annual incidence of neuroendocrine tumors of the pancreas (PanNETs), from 0.4 to 0.8 per 100,000 inhabitants, due to a more widespread use of more sensitive imaging techniques (cross-sectional and functional imaging).
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Publication history

Received: 26/10/2021

Accepted: 17/11/2021

Online First: 19/11/2021

Published: 10/01/2022

Article revision time: 21 days

Article Online First time: 24 days

Article editing time: 76 days


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