A Case of Multiple Carcinoid Tumors in the Ileum

Daisuke Hokuto, Junichiro Taki, Masayoshi Ueno and Hideaki Yoshida

Department of Surgery, Haibara Municipal General Hospital

A 64-year-old man found in ultrasonography of the right lower abdomen to have a 4× 3 cm tumor was diagnosed with a tumor of the small intestine by computed tomography and small bowel radiography, necessitating surgery. The tumor was in fact found in the intestinal mesenterium, not in the small intestine, and 2 more tumors were found in the ileum. The ileum was partially resected and surgical specimens showed 3 tumors in the ileum (30× 20 mm, 3× 3 mm, 15× 10 mm), and a 50× 50× 30 mm tumor in the mesenterium. Pathologically, the tumors in the ileum were carcinoid and that in the mesenterium was lymph node metastasis.

Key words
carcinoid, ileum, multiple

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Daisuke Hokuto Department of Surgery, Haibara Municipal General Hospital
815 Hagihara, Haibara town, Uda-gun, Nara, 633-0298 JAPAN

Accepted
July 28, 2004

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