The patient underwent bronchoscopy with the biopsy proving carcinoid tumor. The patient had multiple co-morbidities,was not deemed to be a surgical candidate, and was referred for radiation therapy.The patients in the case series presented with nonspecific respiratory symptoms, leading to diagnostic ...
Carcinoid cancer is a rare type of slow-growing tumor that can occur in the lungs or the digestive tract. Learn more.
Carcinoid tumors can be "nonfunctioning" presenting as a tumor mass or "functioning" i.e. producing several biopeptides causing carcinoid syndrome. The sign and symptoms of a "nonfunctioning" tumor depend on the tumor location and size as well as on the presence of metastases. Therefore, ...
Bronchial obstruction's symptoms as cough, hemoptysis and pneumonia may be present when they are centrally located and lung-sparing surgery is usually preferred. We describe the case of an adult patient with a central right upper lobe carcinoid tumor and a concurrent tracheal bronchus malformation....
potential. However, carcinoid tumor cells are distinguished from most other types of tumors in that they secrete various hormone-like substances (e.g., serotonin, noradrenalin, histamines) which may cause symptoms throughout the body rather than symptoms localized to the organ where the tumor ...
Carcinoid tumorsare cancerous, but have been called cancer in slow motion, because if you have a carcinoid tumor, you may have it for many years and never know it. In rare cases, usually after a carcinoid tumor has spread, it can cause symptoms called carcinoid syndrome. ...
I kept on complaining of increased symptoms – moon face, fatigue, headaches, joint pain etc. Got diagnosed with sleep apnea. My oncologist pooh poohed everything but further staining of my lung tumor indicated that it was secreting ACTH – Cushings!
Surgery is the treatment of choice for PCs with the aim of removing the tumor and preserving as much lung tissue as possible. Resection of metastases should be considered whenever possible with curative intent. Somatostatin analogs are the first-line treatment of carcinoid syndrome and may be ...
for the hormonal imbalance but showed no pathological modifications. The final diagnosis was of a lung tumor in the right superior lobe associated with Cushing syndrome, classifying the lesion as a neuroendocrine tumor with ectopic secretion of ACTH....
The diagnosis of multiple non-functional neuroendocrine tumors of the lung (tumorlets with at least two dominant typical carcinoids) was made. Initial six month repeat imaging showed stable pulmonary nodules. In the absence of symptoms, the decision to follow the patient with regular clinic ...