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Endobronchial Carcinoid and Concurrent Carcinoid Syndrome in an Adolescent Female [PDF]
Case Reports in Pediatrics, 2016 Endobronchial carcinoid tumors are the most common intrabronchial tumors in children and adolescents. Common signs and symptoms include persistent cough and wheezing not responsive to bronchodilators, hemoptysis, and recurrent fever.
Jonathan D. Cogen +2 more
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Carcinoid Syndrome-Induced Ventricular Tachycardia [PDF]
Case Reports in Cardiology, 2016 Introduction. Carcinoid tumors are rare neuroendocrine malignancies that secrete multiple bioactive substances. These bioactive substances are responsible for the carcinoid syndrome characterized by diarrhea, flushing, syncope, and right-sided valvular ...
Austin B. Rupp +3 more
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Primary Mesenteric Carcinoid Tumor Presenting with Carcinoid Syndrome [PDF]
Case Reports in Gastroenterology, 2018 Neuroendocrine neoplasms (NENs) are a diverse group of tumors arising throughout the body with a common origin from neuroendocrine cells. Well-differentiated NENs, also known as neuroendocrine tumors (NETs), are generally indolent and are often found ...
Oluwaseun Shogbesan +3 more
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Pitfalls in the diagnosis of carcinoid syndrome [PDF]
Family Medicine & Primary Care Review, 2016 Background . Carcinoid syndrome (CS ) is a rare syndrome, most commonly associated with neuroendocrine neoplasms (NEN s) of the small intestine. Carcinoid syndrome consists of diarrhea, vomiting, abdominal pain, cutaneous flushing, teleangiectasias ...
Dorota Kaczmarska-Turek +8 more
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Case Reports in Oncological Medicine, 2017 We present a case of metastatic recurrence of carcinoid tumor accompanied by carcinoid syndrome in a 68-year-old Japanese man, 12 years after resection of typical pulmonary carcinoid.
Asako Yanagisawa +10 more
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Primary Testicular Carcinoid Tumor presenting as Carcinoid Heart Disease
Indian Journal of Urology, 2015 Primary carcinoid tumors of the testis are very rare, and they seldom present with carcinoid syndrome. We report a hereto unreported instance, where a patient with a long-standing testicular mass presented with carcinoid heart disease, an uncommon form ...
Manjunath L Chikkaraddi +2 more
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Carcinoid Syndrome and Carcinoid Heart Disease as Manifestations of Non-Metastatic Ovarian Neuroendocrine Tumour [PDF]
Acta Médica Portuguesa, 2017 The carcinoid syndrome is rare but it is associated with carcinoid heart disease in more than a half of the cases. Carcinoid heart disease is typically characterised by morphological and functional modifications of right-sided valves.
Joana Simões-Pereira +3 more
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The role of serotonin inhibition within the treatment of carcinoid syndrome [PDF]
Endocrine Oncology, 2023 Carcinoid syndrome is the most frequent hormonal complication associated with neuroendocrine neoplasms. It was first reported in 1954, and the classical symptoms are diarrhoea, flushing and abdominal pain.
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Developments in the treatment of carcinoid syndrome – impact of telotristat
Therapeutics and Clinical Risk Management, 2018 David L Chan, Simron Singh Odette Cancer Centre, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, ON, Canada Abstract: Carcinoid syndrome occurs in 20% of patients with neuroendocrine tumors, and serotonin is usually the main causative hormonal peptide ...
Chan DL, Singh S
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Ectopic ACTH-Dependent Cushing’s Syndrome Caused by Bronchial Carcinoid
Mìžnarodnij Endokrinologìčnij Žurnal, 2015 The article presents the concept of ectopic ACTH-secreting tumors of the neuroendocrine system. There was described a rare case of ectopic ACTH-dependent Cushing’s syndrome caused by bronchial carcinoid, in the clinical pattern of which, along with ...
P.M. Liashuk +2 more
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