PRAGUE MEDICAL REPORT
PRAGUE MEDICAL REPORT
Prague Medical Report je víceoborový biomedicínský časopis publikující původní recenzované vědecké články, přehledové a případové studie a krátké zprávy v angličtině. Časopis založený v roce 1885 jako Sborník lékařský vychází čtyřikrát ročně.

PRAGUE MEDICAL REPORT, Vol 114 No 1 (2013), 43–47

Intestinal Ischaemia Associated with Carcinoid Tumor: A Case Report with Review of the Pathogenesis

O. Yener

DOI: https://doi.org/10.14712/23362936.2014.38
zveřejněno: 24. 04. 2015

Abstract

Carcinoid tumors are rare, slow-growing neuroendocrine neoplasms that are often indolent and may not become clinically apparent until there is a metastatic spread or evidence of carcinoid syndrome. A 44-year-old man presented to our clinic department with a history of previous left colon cancer operation, chronic crampy left lower quadrant pain, mass and severe anemia. A MR scan was obtained which demonstrated a calcified mesenteric mass 12×8×10 cm diameter with surrounding left colon mesenteric infiltration. The liver was normal. A case of ischaemic ileal necrosis is reported. It was associated with elastic vascular sclerosis produced by mesenteric metastases of an ileal carcinoid tumor. It is postulated that intestinal ischaemia may be of more importance in the production of abdominal pain by carcinoid tumors than has been generally accepted, and that it is the result of functional and structural changes in and around the mesenteric blood vessels, caused by substances secreted by the carcinoid tumor.

klíčová slova: Carcinoid tumor; Intestinal ischaemia

167 x 240 mm
vychází: 4 x ročně
cena tištěného čísla: 450 Kč
ISSN: 1214-6994
E-ISSN: 2336-2936

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