Endocrine tumors (ET) of the digestive tract are rare. Gastric carcinoid was the most common form of gastrointestinal ET's. It is a rare complication of pernicious anemia but may reveal the disease. We report the case of a 57-yearold women, wich is referred for exploration of epigastric pain with persistent dyspepsia. Gastroscopy found polypoids lesions (A) and gastric mucosae was enlarged, on ...

  Neuroendocrine tumors (NETs) constitute a heterogeneous group of neoplasms including carcinoids, pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors, pituitary tumors, medullary thyroid carcinoma and phaeochromocytomas. The symptoms and the outcome of NETs differ considerably between patients depending on several factors. By labelling tracers with a radioisotope, the tracer acts as a ...

A 62-year-old woman diagnosed with a pancreatic neuroendocrine tumor (NET) underwent surgery in 2004 and was reoperated in 2009 for recurrence in the greater curvature of the stomach. Theposterior clinical and radiological controlswerenegative until 2011. InMarch 2011 a somatostatin receptor scintigraphy with 99mTcEDDA/HYNIC-TOC was performed to rule out new recurrence which was suspected due t...

Small cell carcinoma (SmCC) is a poorly diff erentiated neuroendocrine carcinoma that has been reported in several sites throughout the head and neck region, including salivary glands where it is a rare primary tumor accounting for less than 1% of all salivary gland tumors. We report a case of a 55-yearold man with problems consisting of neck pain and diffi cult swallowing induced by a retromol...

We describe an unusual case of a 50-year-old female patient developing two primary cancers with neuroendocrine features. Initially the patient underwent surgery for an entero-pancreatic neuroendocrine carcinoma. During the subsequent follow-up she experienced some episodes of vaginal bleeding with negative PET scanning with the tracer fluorine-18 (F-18) fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG). A Papanicolaou ...

Abstract Esophageal basaloid squamous cell carcinoma may resemble small biopsy specimens and cause difficulties in pathology diagnosis. We aimed to explore the pathological features of carcinomas that mimic clarify their diagnostic prognostic features. This study will contribute draw attention an important pitfall diagnosis endoscopic esophagus. Thirty esophageal were reviewed compared with 13 ...