A Case of Rectal Carcinoid with Huge Mass of the Liver Metastasis

Kiyoshi Maeda, Hiroji Nisino, Nobuya Yamada, Shigehiko Nishimura, Atsunori Nitta, Yuichi Arimoto, Tetsuro Ishikawa, Teruyuki Ikehara, Masahiro Okuno, Michio Sowa, Kenichi Wakasa*

First Department of Surgery and Department of Pathology*, Osaka City University Medical School

A 58-year-old woman was admitted to our hospital with chief complaint of right hypochondralgia and had felt the so-called carcinoid syndrome. Barium enema and endoscopy revealed a rectal mass 9 mm in diameter, and abdominal CT and ultrasonography revealed the huge tumor in the right lobe of the liver. These tumors were histologically diagnosed as rectal carcinoid with liver metastasis. Rectal resection with lymphadenectomy and extended right lobectomy of the liver were performed. The patient is currently healthy 7 months after surgery.

Key words
small rectal carcinoid with huge liver metastasis, carcinoid syndrome

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Kiyoshi Maeda First Department of Surgery, Osaka City University Medical School
1-5-7 Asahimachi, Abeno-ku, Osaka, 545 JAPAN

Accepted
February 10, 1993

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