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MALIGNANT LIVER CARCINOID: THE PLACE OF SURGERY AND CHEMOTHERAPY REVIEW AND CASE PRESENTATION
Author(s) -
Kune Gabriel A.,
Goldstein Jacob
Publication year - 1974
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.1974.tb71170.x
Subject(s) - carcinoid syndrome , medicine , presentation (obstetrics) , chemotherapy , general surgery , carcinoid tumors , surgery , radiology
A review is made of the current concepts regarding the place of surgery and chemotherapy in the management of malignant liver carcinoid presenting as the carcinoid syndrome. A case of the carcinoid syndrome is described in which a short but definite palliation of the symptoms was obtained by local removal of numerous hepatic metastases.