The Clinical and Prognostic Factors for Biliary Neuroendocrine Neoplasm: A Study Based on the SEER Database
Abstract Background: In this study, we aimed at elucidating the postoperative survival and prognostic factors in patients with biliary neuroendocrine neoplasm (NEN).Methods: Cases of biliary system NEN and adenocarcinoma were extracted from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) database. A propensity score matching (PSM) method was used to adjust baseline differences in clinicopathological characteristics in our analysis. The Kaplan-Meier analysis was carried out for survival analysis. Results:A total of 243 patients with biliary system NEN were enrolled in this study, of which 119 patients’ lesions located in gallbladder, while the others’ located in bile duct. The postoperative overall survival of bile duct NEN is significantly longer than that of gallbladder NEN (P<0.001). For GB-NENs, surgery method (P=0.020) and lymph node metastasis (P=0.018) were identified as independent prognostic factors. In terms of AOV NENs, age (P=0.017) and lymph node metastasis (P=0.006) were identified was independent prognostic factor, while grade (P=0.002) and lymph node metastasis (P=0.036) were identified as independent prognostic factors for EBD NENs. PSM analysis indicated that patients with biliary duct NENs have better postoperative prognosis than biliary duct adenocarcinoma.Conclusions: Patients with NEN have better overall survival than patients with adenocarcinoma. Gallbladder NEN has adverse prognosis than that of biliary tract NEN. Pathological subtype, differentiation, lymph node metastasis, surgery method and lymph node resection could affect postoperative prognosis of gallbladder and biliary tract NEN.