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LARGE CARCINOID TUMOR OF THE TRANSVERSE COLON
Author(s) -
Case Thomas C.
Publication year - 1969
Publication title -
journal of the american geriatrics society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.992
H-Index - 232
eISSN - 1532-5415
pISSN - 0002-8614
DOI - 10.1111/j.1532-5415.1969.tb02356.x
Subject(s) - medicine , transverse colon , malignancy , lymph , lumen (anatomy) , anemia , carcinoid tumors , metastasis , bowel obstruction , radiology , gastroenterology , surgery , pathology , cancer
A bstract A case is reported of an unusually large (8 cm × 6 cm) carcinoid tumor of the transverse colon. The patient had marked anemia but no severe symptoms of obstruction although the bowel lumen proved to be almost completely occluded. Since the pathologist found no evidence of malignancy in the tumor nor of metastasis in the fourteen lymph nodes examined, surgical removal may prove to be curative.