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Neuroendocrine tumour management: a team approach
A Banfield1, S Green, J K Ramage
1Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, North Hampshire Hospital, Basingstoke.
Hospital Medicine (London, England : 1998)
|February 3, 2005
Abstract:
This article gives an overview of neuroendocrine tumours of the gut, liver and pancreas and will make the case for a multidisciplinary approach to management.
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