Given the complexity involving the origin, diagnosis and management of patients with carcinoid syndrome, we have undertaken a comprehensive review to update information about the pathophysiology, diagnostic tools and treatment sequence of this syndrome, which currently comprises a multidisciplinary approach....
Gastrointestinal tract carcinoid tumors have a nonspecific clinical presentation, except in the case of the carcinoid syndrome. Surgical resection is the treatment of choice for improving survival. Surgically treated patients with carcinoid tumor have an overall favorable83% 5-year survival rate. What is...
Read about carcinoid tumor treatment, symptoms, and meaning. Carcinoid tumors in the lungs or gut often have no symptoms, however, they may cause carcinoid syndrome. Learn the symptoms, treatment, and prognosis of carcinoid tumors.
Carcinoid syndrome's rarity and mix of symptoms pose a diagnostic challenge. On average, it takes between four and five years to pin down the diagnosis. It's not that physicians are stupid, but that the symptoms are so varied and misleading, luring them down blind alleys. The symptoms turn...
Interferon-alfa can help shrink or slow the growth of metastatic gastrointestinal carcinoid tumors and improve symptoms of carcinoid syndrome Given by injection May have flu-like side effects, which may be severe enough to hinder treatment Treatment for Metastases ...
1,2 The primary tumor usually is located in the intestine, especially in those organs comprising the embryological midgut (lower duodenum, jejunum, ileum, and cecum). 3 The terminal ileum is the primary site of origin of the tumor in most patients with the syndrome. Appendiceal lesions are ...
关键词: malignancies of neuroendocrine system carcinoid syndrome CT, magnetic resonance imaging and barium studies somatostatin receptor scintigraphy positron emission tomography (PET) resection of hepatic metastases liver transplantation hepatic artery embolization and chemoembolization ...
Treatment of the carcinoid syndrome with SMS 201-995;a somatostatin analogue. Scand J Gastroenterol 1986;119:191-2.Öberg, K., Norheim, I., Lundqvist, G., and Wide, L. (1986). Treatment of the carcinoid syndrome with SMS 201-995, a somatostatin analouge. Scand J Gastroenterol 119 , ...
Compositions comprising epothilones and their use for the treatment of carcinoid syndrome Use of a compound of formula I wherein A represents O or NR, wherein Ris hydrogen or lower alkyl, R is hydrogen or lower alkyl, R鈥 is methyl, methoxy, ethoxy, amino, methylamino, dimethylamino, ...
. They are most commonly located in the gastrointestinal tract and can synthesize a variety of hormones (especially serotonin). Most carcinoids are asymptomatic because most of the hormones they produce are metabolized by the first-pass effect in the liver. Carcinoid syndrome – characterized ...