Management of incidentally discovered appendiceal neuroendocrine tumors after an appendicectomy

Table 2 Summary of published data on appendiceal neuroendocrine tumor recurrence and survival

Author (Yr)	n	Recurrence rate	Specific disease survival rate	Reported follow-up
Tsikitis et al[38], 2012	982	-	95.6%	5-yr rate
Volante et al[17], 2013	138	-	97.1%	86.5 mo (1 - 267)
Mosquera et al[39], 2017	418	-	95.7%	5-yr rate
Sarchekeh et al[40], 2017	118	-	97.5%	10-yr rate
Pawa et al[41], 2017	215	0	99.05%	10-yr rate
Alexandraki et al[32], 2020	136	2.2%	100%	10-yr rate
Brighi et al[5], 2020	435	0%	98.5%	Median follow-up not provided, but at least 20% longer than 10 yr
Alabraba et al[1], 2021	102	1%	99%	6.2 yr (0.8-27.8)
Holmager et al[28], 2021	335	0%	100%	66 mo (1-250)