INTRODUCTION Carcinoid tumors of the lung are rare neoplasms of neuroendocrine origin. According to the World Health Organization, they can be classified into typical carcinoids and atypical carcinoids. The outcome, when compared to other lung neoplasms is usually favorable. OBJECTIVES To characterize the population of patients with a diagnosis of carcinoid tumor, treated in a single institut...

Carcinoid tumors with hepatic involvement can produce intense flushing, tachycardia, hypotension or hypertension and diarrhoea. Patients with limited cardiac reserve may not tolerate these effects under anaesthesia. Valvular heart disease associated with carcinoid tumors has been reported, but there is no record in the literature of such an association with coronary artery disease. This report ...

Gastrointestinal carcinoid tumors are rare. They constitute approximately two-thirds of all carcinoid tumors. Numerous therapeutic modalities have been used to treat metastatic carcinoids, including hepatic artery embolization and chemoembolization, surgical resection, radio-frequency ablation, chemotherapy, and the use of Octreotide combined with interferon-alpha. We report a case of sustained...

Carcinoid tumors are rare malignant neuroendocrine tumors found mainly in the bowel, stomach and lung, and they are the most common tumors of the appendix. Clinical presentation of these tumors is similar to acute appendicitis, but more commonly they are found incidentally on appendectomy, abdominal surgery or histological examination of the surgical specimen. The purpose of this report is to d...

INTRODUCTION Multiple endocrine neoplasia type 1 (MEN-1) patients are prone to develop carcinoid tumors. Few cases report the development of gastrointestinal carcinoid tumors in patients with MEN-1 syndrome related tumors. This is the first paper to report the occurrence of an intestinal carcinoid tumour in association with a pituitary adenoma. CASE PRESENTATION A sixty eight year old female ...

Primary testicular carcinoid tumor, occupying 0.23% of testicular neoplasm, is a rare and indolent neoplasm with the potential for distant metastasis. We present two cases of primary pure carcinoid tumor of the testis. Both patients were 36 years old. Physical examination revealed testicular mass with and without tenderness. The preoperative serum levels of beta-human chorionic gonadotropin and...

INTRODUCTION Carcinoid tumors (CTs) represent the most common type of neuroendocrine tumors (NETs). Digestive CTs in the gastroduodenal and colorectal tracts may be assessed using endoscopy and echoendoscopy or endoscopic ultrasonography (EUS) with the goal of attempting local resection with curative intent without having recourse to surgery. OBJECTIVE Endpoints in this study included:--Asses...

PURPOSE The use of replication-selective oncolytic adenoviruses is an emerging therapeutic approach for cancer, which thus far has not been employed for carcinoids. We therefore constructed Ad[CgA-E1A], a novel replication-selective oncolytic adenovirus, where the chromogranin A (CgA) promoter controls expression of the adenoviral E1A gene. EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN The Ad[CgA-E1A] virus was evalua...