BACKGROUND: Carcinoid tumors are the most frequently encountered endocrine tumors of the gastrointestinal tract. They are most often found in the appendix, although they can arise in any location of the gut. Carcinoid tumors may secrete a variety of bioactive substances, which can cause the complex of symptoms associated with the carcinoid syndrome. METHODS: The authors reviewed the pathology, ...

 Abstract Thymic carcinoid is an uncommon neoplasm that can present with Cushing syndrome. We report a 39-year old woman with symptoms of Cushing syndrome secondary to thymic carcinoid and synchronous with tuberculous lymphadenitis and pulmonary tuberculosis. 

Carcinoid heart disease is a rare cause of heart failure with or without right valvular heart impairments. In this study, we showed a case of carcinoid tumour with hepatic metastases inducing carcinoid heart disease. Neuroendocrine heart involvement happens for severe tricuspid valve insufficiency and plaques on right ventricular (RV) walls produced by a release of serotonin (5-HT). A patient a...

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 ...

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...

Abstract Background Primary appendiceal tumours are rare. Our experience with the incidental primary and their histological diversity. Patients Method Operative pathological databases of appendicectomies for presumed diagnosis acute appendicitis between January 2015 December 2020 were interrogated. Clinicopathological data collected analysed to present incidence tumours, histopathological diver...

BACKGROUND The association of bronchial carcinoid tumours with carcinoid syndrome is extremely rare especially in the absence of metastasic disease, and the angioedema is not a typical sign of this syndrome. METHODS AND RESULTS We report the case of a 39 year-old woman referred to our allergy department with recurrent episodes of angioedema. The aetiological study of angioedema did not show e...

Background. The carcinoid syndrome is a rare cause of acquired valvular heart disease. Although the typical echocardiographic features of carcinoid heart disease are well recognized, this large series provides new information about unusual manifestations of the disease as well as the role of Doppler echocardiography. Methods and Results. Between 1980 and 1989, 132 patients with carcinoid syndro...