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Clinical Features of Malignant Ovarian Germ Cell Tumors According to Demographic and Pathologic Characteristics. [PDF]
Health Sci RepABSTRACT Background and Aims Malignant ovarian germ cell tumors (MOGCTs) are aggressive cancers affecting mainly young women, in whom fertility preservation is important. Diagnosis is often delayed because early symptoms are non‐specific, leading to advanced disease or emergency surgery that may limit optimal staging and fertility‐sparing treatment. As
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Journal of the Indian Academy of Echocardiography & Cardiovascular Imaging, 2017 Carcinoid tumors are malignant neuroendocrine tumors arising from Kulchitsky cell. The most common site of primary carcinoid tumors is gastrointestinal tract (64%) followed by respiratory tract (28%).
Rohit Tandon, Ravinder Pal Singh
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BMC Medical Genetics, 2020 Background Multiple endocrine neoplasia type 1 (MEN1) syndrome is usually accompanied by endocrine tumors, but non-endocrine tumors can occur as well. However, the coexistence of MEN1 syndrome and malignant tumor such as low-grade fibromyxoid sarcoma has
Maja Radman, Tanja Milicevic
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Ectopic corticotroph syndrome [PDF]
Srpski Arhiv za Celokupno Lekarstvo, 2004 INTRODUCTION Endogenous Cushing's syndrome is a clinical state resulting from prolonged, inappropriate exposure to excessive endogenous secretion of Cortisol and hence excess circulating free cortisol, characterized by loss of the normal feedback ...
Penezić Zorana +5 more
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Hedinger Syndrome—Lessons Learnt: A Single-Center Experience
Journal of Cardiovascular Development and Disease, 2023 Background: Hedinger syndrome (HS) or carcinoid heart disease (CD) is a rare and challenging manifestation of malignant neuroendocrine tumours (NETs) involving the heart.
Mohamed El Gabry +6 more
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Carcinoid syndrome due to a malignant somatostatinoma [PDF]
Postgraduate Medical Journal, 1995 Abstract Somatostatinoma is one of the rarest tumours of the endocrine pancreas. Cardinal manifestations of a somatostatinoma include gallstones, mild diabetes mellitus, steatorrhoea, diarrhoea and dyspepsia. Like any other pancreatic islet cell carcinoma, a somatostatinoma may also produce several different hormones such as ...
O, Ozbakir +6 more
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Bulletin of the National Research Centre, 2019 Background Carcinoids at atypical sites are rare and mostly asymptomatic. In the majority, they show normal levels of serotonin and its metabolites in plasma and urine, resulting in a relatively late diagnosis and hence guarded prognosis.
Karim G. Moustafa, Gamal M. Saied
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Case Reports in Oncology, 2014 Pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors (NETs), including poorly differentiated carcinomas (NECs), are rarely encountered. The majority of these tumors do not secrete excess hormones, but functioning NETs produce large amounts of vasoactive peptides and may ...
Frank Van Fraeyenhove +7 more
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Expressions of Cushing’s syndrome in multiple endocrine neoplasia type 1
Frontiers in Endocrinology, 2023 Cushing’s syndrome (CS) resulting from endogenous hypercortisolism can be sporadic or can occur in the context of familial disease because of pituitary or extra-pituitary neuroendocrine tumors.
William F. Simonds
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Síndrome carcinóide: relato de caso Carcinoid syndrome: case report
Anais Brasileiros de Dermatologia, 2008 Os tumores carcinóides são raros, com incidência aproximada de um a dois casos por 100.000 habitantes. Estima-se que a síndrome carcinóide - que se caracteriza por flushing, diarréia, dor abdominal e, em menor freqüência, pelagra, broncoespasmo e doença ...
Ane Beatriz Mautari Niwa +1 more
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