A Case of Jejunal Carcinoid Tumor

Shiho Natori, Shuichi Osada, Kunio Kameda, Akira Kubo, Yoshinori Takekawa^* and Hiroshi Shimada^**

Departments of Surgery and Pathology^*, Yokosuka City Hospital
Second Department of Surgery, Yokohama City University^**

A 73-year-old man admitted for left flank pain was diagnosed with diverticulitis. After antibiotic administration and starvation therapy, he had remission of abdominal pain and inflammatory blood test responses turned negative, but intermittent abdominal pain remaind. Abdominal enhanced computed tomography (CT) showed a mass lesion in the left abdomen. Surgery conducted January 8, 2002, showed a jejunal tumor 50 cm from the Treitz ligament with a 4 cm swelling lymph node. The resected specimen showed a type 3 tumor about 30 mm in diameter with a 40 mm lymph node. The histopathological diagnosis was carcinoid tumor of the jejunum, se, n (+). The patient had recurrent intermittent abdominal pain and CT showed swelling abdominal lymph nodes and no liver metastasis, diagnosed as a rare case of jejunal carcinoid tumor.

Key words
carcinoid tumor, lymph node metastasis of the jejunal carcinoid, jejunal tumor

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Shiho Natori Departments of Surgery, Yokosuka City Hospital 1-3-2 Nagasaka, Yokosuka, 240-0915 JAPAN

Accepted
September 25, 2002

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