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A 61-year-old woman presented to the hospital with a clinical picture consistent with acute appendicitis. During surgery, the appendix was found to be gangrenous and involved the appendiceal base, so an ileocecectomy was performed. Pathology revealed an incidental neuroendocrine tumor of the terminal ileum involving five of nine lymph nodes. The pa...
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