Thymic epithelial tumors occur in 1-5% of patients with multiple endocrine neoplasia type 1 (MEN 1). Majority of these thymic epithelial tumors are thymic carcinoids and patients with thymoma in MEN 1 is rare. Furthermore, thymoma with neuroendocrine differentiation was also rarely reported. Herein, we report a 68-year-old man having type B3 thymoma with neuroendocrine differentiation in MEN 1 ...

BACKGROUND Pulmonary carcinoid tumors make up approximately one percent of all pulmonary tumors, and controversy exists regarding management and prognosis. We undertook a retrospective analysis of all patients who underwent surgical resection of pulmonary carcinoid tumors at our institution. METHODS From 1992 through 2014, 121 patients who underwent surgical resection of pulmonary carcinoid t...

OBJECTIVE To develop a collaborative approach for the treatment of gastrointestinal carcinoid tumours and carcinoid syndrome. PARTICIPANTS Leaders in the medical, endocrine, radiologic and surgical treatment of carcinoid disease were selected to present papers at the Carcinoid Syndrome Symposium on Treatment Modalities for Gastrointestinal Carcinoid Tumours and participate in the workshop tha...

Lubarsch in 1888 first described the histology of carcinoid tumors (1) and the term carcinoid was proposed in 1907 by Oberndorfer (2) when described a submucosal tumor of the small intestine. Since then, carcinoid has been reported to develop in various organs, including gastrointestinal tract, liver, lung, breast, gall bladder, skin, trachea, parotid gland, and thymus (3). It is well known tha...