Histology of neuroendocrine tumour (small intestine)
Neuroendocrine tumours of the stomach are rare tumours which comprise about 5% of all neuroendocrine tumours of the gastrointestinal tract.
The most frequent neuroendocrine tumour of the stomach is type I tumour.
Type III tumours are low grade malignant differentiated tumours.
Serum gastrin is normal.
The common symptom is upper gastrointestinal bleeding.
Gastrectomy, lymph node resection and resection of liver metastases is the treatment of choice.