Synchronous Adenocarcinoma of the Colon and Rectal Carcinoid
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Synchronous Adenocarcinoma of the Colon and Rectal Carcinoid
Primary colonic adenocarcinoma and synchronous rectal carcinoids are rare tumors. Whenever a synchronous tumor with a nonmetastatic carcinoid component is encountered, its prognosis is determined by the associate malignancy. The discovery of an asymptomatic gastrointestinal carcinoid during the operative treatment of another malignancy will usually only require resection without additional trea...
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عنوان ژورنال: Case Reports in Gastroenterology
سال: 2016
ISSN: 1662-0631
DOI: 10.1159/000450677