Regular chromogranin A monitoring facilitated the early detection of a gastrointestinal neuroendocrine tumour in a patient with type 1 diabetes

Endokrynol Pol. 2020;71(5):483-484. doi: 10.5603/EP.a2020.0054. Epub 2020 Aug 28.

¹ Department of Internal Medicine and Haematology, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary. herold.zoltan@med.semmelweis-univ.hu.
² Department of Internal Medicine and Haematology, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary.
³ 1st Department of Pathology and Experimental Cancer Research, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary.
⁴ Department of Transplantation and Surgery, Semmelweis University, Budapest, 1082, Hungary.
⁵ Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
⁶ Molecular Medicine Research Group, Eotvos Lorand Research Network and Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary.

Abstract

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Keywords: atrophic gastritis; chromogranin A; diabetes mellitus type 1; enterochromaffin-like cells; neuroendocrine tumours.