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S Collatz Christensen

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PubMed1979

Angiography in the diagnosis of carcinoid syndrome.

The diagnosis of carcinoid syndrome has been confirmed by selective abdominal angiography in a consecutive series of 18 patients. In eight patients the primary carcinoid tumour was removed before angiography. The primary lesion was demonstrated in eight of ten cases. Metastases from the carcinoid tumours was present in all 18 patients. All cases of mesenteric metastases and 12 of 14 cases with liver metastases were visualized by angiography. All but one of the liver metastases were highly vascularized and therefore easy to recognize, making angiography a good monitor in the control of medical therapy or in planning of surgical intervention.

Abdominal Neoplasms↗
PubMed1979

Clinical diagnosis of metastatic carcinoid tumours.

Eighteen patients with metastatic carcinoid tumours were admitted to surgical gastroenterological department of Rigshospitalet during the period 1974--1978. Thirteen had primary carcinoid tumours in the terminal ileum, two in the lungs, one in the pancreas, one in the testis, and one possibly in the retroperitoneum. All patients had distant metastases, 13 in the liver. Carcinoid syndrome with flusing and diarrhoea was present in 15 patients (83%). The time elapsing from onset of symptoms until diagnosis was on an average 2 1/2 years. The most valuable screening test for carcinoid syndrome was determination of the excretion of 5-hydroxy-indol- acetic-acid. The most sensitive investigation for determination of primary tumour and/or metastases was abdominal angiography, which was positive in all cases. Other radiological investigations were less sensitive.

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