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Carcinoid tumor of the gallbladder [PDF]

Sao Paulo Medical Journal, 1998
The carcinoid tumor is a relatively rare type of endocrine tumor, which arises mainly in the gastrointestinal tract. Primary gallbladder and biliary duct system carcinoids comprise less than 1% of all carcinoid tumors arising from any tissue or organ in the body. We describe a case of carcinoid tumor of the gallbladder in a 39-year-old man.
Marcel Cerqueira César Machado, André L. Montagnini, Sonia Penteado, Marcel Autran C. Machado   +3 more
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Carcinoid tumors [PDF]

Orvosi Hetilap, 2010
A szerzők a carcinoid tumorokkal kapcsolatos legfontosabb klinikai gyakorlati ismeretekről adnak áttekintést. A carcinoid daganatok neuroendokrin sejtekből származó, többségében lassan növekvő ritka tumorok, azonban gyorsan metasztatizáló, agresszív formában is jelentkezhetnek. Epidemiológiai adatok szerint gyakoriságuk nő, amit részben a diagnosztikus
István, Pregun, György, Bodoky, Károly, Rácz, Zsolt, Tulassay   +3 more
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Recurrent transient visual loss in secretory carcinoid tumor. [PDF]

Am J Ophthalmol Case Rep
Purpose: We describe a case of a 68-year-old woman who had a biopsy-proven carcinoid of the lung and transient episodes of unilateral and bilateral vision loss presumed to be the result to intermittent serum elevations of vasoactive peptides secondary to
Douglas VP, Owji S, Pakravan M, Charoenkijkajorn C, Laylani NAR, Davila-Siliezar P, Piao Y, Lee AG.   +7 more
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Severe Ectopic Adrenocorticotropic Hormone Syndrome Due to Pulmonary Carcinoid Tumor: A Case Report and Literature Review. [PDF]

AACE Clin Case Rep
Background/Objective: Pulmonary carcinoid tumors are a rare cause of Cushing’s syndrome and usually present with an indolent course. Here, we present a case of rapid onset and severe Cushing’s syndrome due to a typical pulmonary carcinoid tumor.
Aldrete K, Shahla L.
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Carcinoid Tumors [PDF]

The Oncologist, 2008
Abstract Carcinoid tumors are rare, slow-growing neuroendocrine tumors arising from the enterochromaffin cells disseminated throughout the gastrointestinal and bronchopulmonary systems. Though they have been traditionally classified based on embryologic site of origin, morphologic pattern, and silver affinity, newer classification ...
Scott N, Pinchot, Kyle, Holen, Rebecca S, Sippel, Herbert, Chen   +3 more
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Heterogeneous tumor‐immune microenvironments between primary and metastatic carcinoid tumors differentially respond to anti‐PD‐L1 antibody therapy

Thoracic Cancer, 2021
A pulmonary carcinoid tumor is a rare tumor that lacks a validated therapeutic approach for unresectable disease. Understanding the intersite tumor‐immune heterogeneity is essential to harness the immune system for cancer therapy.
Shinya Sakata, Kosuke Imamura, Yuka Tajima, Yuiko Masuda, Ryo Sato, Chieko Yoshida, Shinichiro Okamoto, Sho Saeki, Yusuke Tomita, Takuro Sakagami   +9 more
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Malignant carcinoid tumor of the pancreas [PDF]

Srpski Arhiv za Celokupno Lekarstvo, 2002
Carcinoid tumors arise from argentaffine cells or from a primitive stem cells which may differentiate into anyone of a variety of adult endocrine-secreting cells.
Čolović Radoje B., Micev Marjan, Čolović Nataša, Zogović Sergej, Trbojević Božo J., Stojković Mirjana   +5 more
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An infertile female delivered a baby after removal of primary renal carcinoid tumor

Open Medicine, 2021
Primary renal carcinoid tumors are exceedingly rare. We report a 37-year-old woman with primary infertility, who was found to have a primary renal carcinoid tumor. She became pregnant and gave birth to a baby after removal of the tumor. This is the first
Jhang Syu, Chiu Allen W.
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Gastrointestinal carcinoid tumors [PDF]

Revista Española de Enfermedades Digestivas, 2010
carcinoid tumors (CTs) represent the commonest neuroendocrine tumors. Those in the gastrointestinal tract are diagnosed in surgical specimens, clinically, and using imaging techniques (endoscopy, echoendoscopy, CT, Octreoscan, etc.). The goal of this retrospective study was to review a personal series of gastrointestinal carcinoid tumors, and to ...
Varas Lorenzo, M. J., Muñoz Agel, F., Espinós Pérez, J. C., Bardají Bofill, M.   +3 more
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Complete remission of Cdx-2 positive primary testicular carcinoid tumor: 10-years follow-up and literature review

BMC Urology, 2020
Background The neuroendocrine cells can cause a variety of malignancies throughout the human body known as the neuroendocrine tumors (NETs) or carcinoid tumors.
Eugen Widmeier, Hannah Füllgraf, Cornelius F. Waller   +2 more
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