VIPoma natural history, complications and prognosis
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Overview
Natural History
Complications
- Metastasis
- Cardiac arrest from low blood potassium level
- Dehydration
Prognosis
- Surgery can usually cure VIPomas. However, in one-third to one-half of patients, the tumor has spread by the time of diagnosis and cannot be cured.
- VIPoma is associated with a 5 year survival rate of 20% and 3 year survival rate of 40%.[1]
References
- ↑ Smith, Stephen L.; Branton, Susan A.; Avino, Anthony J.; Martin, J.Kirk; Klingler, Paul J.; Thompson, Geoffrey B.; Grant, Clive S.; van Heerden, Jon A. (1998). "Vasoactive intestinal polypeptide secreting islet cell tumors: A 15-year experience and review of the literature". Surgery. 124 (6): 1050–1055. doi:10.1067/msy.1998.92005. ISSN 0039-6060.