Lung carcinoid tumors account for approximately 2% of lung cancers, with 10% of the tumors represented by the atypical type. While atypical carcinoids are metastatic to intrathoracic lymph nodes in approximately half of the cases on the initial presentation, distant metastases are seen in only 20% of the patients and are found most frequently in bones, liver, adrenal glands, and brain. We prese...

Carcinoid tumors are not a common entity in thorax. The most common sites include the abdominal sites like the Appendix and the Ileum . The carcinoids in the thorax are seen rarely and that to incidentally.in thymus the carcinoids are all together rare. Usually carcinoids tend to be Chromaffin positive histologically and secrete a largr number of chemicals. They belong to the APUD system(Amine ...

In the carcinoid tumours of the bronchopulmonary tract surgical resection is still the primary goal. Many problems are, however, unclear: the extent of resection, formal lymph node dissection or not, the role of Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery (VATS) and of the multidisciplinary approach. In the Department of Surgical Sciences and Applied Medical Technologies, "La Sapienza", Rome's University, ...

mitochondrial disorders (mids) may occasionaly go along with dysmorphism but hand deformities, as in the following case, have been only rarely reported. a 72 year old female with ptosis, hypoacusis, tremor, myopathy, diabetes mellitus, arterial hypertension, severe cardiac disease, pulmonary hypertension, gastric carcinoid, hepatopathy, generalised atherosclerosis, anemia, polyarthrosis, and hy...