Carcinoid syndrome: diagnosis and medical management
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Carcinoid syndrome: diagnosis and medical management.
Gastro-intestinal carcinoids are slow growing tumors arising from enterochromaffin or Kulchitsky cells. Their clinical presentation depends on what combination of bioactive substances is secreted. Midgut carcinoid can present with the carcinoid syndrome in the presence of liver metastases. Its most typical clinical manifestations include cutaneous flushing and diarrhea. A nonspecific biochemica...
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عنوان ژورنال: Arquivos Brasileiros de Endocrinologia & Metabologia
سال: 2005
ISSN: 0004-2730
DOI: 10.1590/s0004-27302005000500028