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MEDIASTINAL CARCINOID TUMOUR: PRE‐OPERATIVE ARTERIAL EMBOLISATION
Author(s) -
HUGHES C. F.
Publication year - 1986
Publication title -
australian and new zealand journal of medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.596
H-Index - 70
eISSN - 1445-5994
pISSN - 0004-8291
DOI - 10.1111/j.1445-5994.1986.tb00045.x
Subject(s) - medicine , mediastinum , angiography , radiology , carcinoid tumour , thymoma , surgery , pathology
Carcinoid tumours of the mediastinum are very rare. They are frequently malignant and run a quite different course from that of the more benign thymomas. We report a 70 year old man with an anterior mediastinal tumour which was initially diagnosed as a thymoma but which was subsequently shown to be a carcinoid tumour. Surgical extirpation was greatly enhanced by pre‐operative angiography and arterial embolisation of the tumour. Early and aggressive diagnostic attempts, pre‐operative angiography, with or without arterial embolisation, and complete surgical excision offer the best hope of a cure for these malignant tumours.