Management of duodenal-pancreatic endocrine tumors

Endocrine tumors of pancreas and duodenum have a common diagnostic and therapeutic approach. Surgery has a key role to play in the management of patients with such tumors. According to a particular patient, this role is to get under control a secretory syndrome which is refractory to medical therapy, to eradicate a malignant or a premalignant tumor, to produce cytoreduction by debulking, or to palliate complications due to massive regional extension of a malignant tumor.