Carcinoid tumors can be cancerous or noncancerous. They can become malignant (cancerous) and metastasize over time. When this happens, the cancer typically spreads first to nearby lymph nodes and ...

He subsequently developed dyspnea on exertion. Diagnosis. Carcinoid tumor of midgut origin with large segment 3 liver metastasis. Carcinoid syndrome and carcinoid heart disease. Management.

tumors of these cells can produce syndromes of hormone excess, often long before local growth or metastatic spread is otherwise apparent. Manifestations of the carcinoid syndrome include the ...

Four patients had from two to nine multiple tumors. The usual carcinoid is seen at autopsy as a small nodule with a distinctive yellowish color. There were two malignant carcinoids in our series ...

The echocardiographic appearance of this can mimic that of thrombus. Carcinoid tumors, when metastatic to the liver, can cause right heart valvular disease most commonly tricuspid valve stenosis.

Metastatic. Your cancer has spread to organs ... and rectum. If you have GI carcinoid tumors, your doctor may discuss three stages: Localized. Your cancer hasn't spread outside the place where ...

Gastrointestinal carcinoid tumor is another form of cancer that can ... it is called metastasis. These metastatic cancer cells are the same type of cancer as the primary tumor. For example, if ...

Unrelated to cigarette smoking, carcinoid tumors can metastasize ... or directly from nearby organs. Metastatic tumors are most often multiple, scattered throughout the lung and concentrated ...

Survival was more closely linked to goblet cell carcinoid type than to disease stage ... 3 Genetically, AA is not identical to typical colon cancer. Patients diagnosed with AA should undergo a ...