appendiceal neoplasms/serotonin

A series of 156 patients with gastrointestinal carcinoid tumors is presented. The tumors were grouped as foregut, midgut and hindgut carcinoids. The appendiceal tumors were grouped separately. Lack of specific symptoms resulted in only 26% correct presumptive diagnoses. This also reflected the

We describe a case of goblet cell carcinoid of the vermiform appendix, which metastasized to the bilateral ovaries, uterus, vagina and peritoneum three years and four months after appendectomy. The appendiceal tumor showed transmural infiltration of carcinoembryonic antigen-positive goblet cell-type

A specimen from the small intestine with multiple (three) classic carcinoid tumors and one appendiceal carcinoid tumor displaying argentaffinity, argyrophilia (Grimelius stain), and serotonin and neuron specific enolase immunoreactivity was examined by light microscopy with regard to the tumor cell

The rectum and appendix are the two major sites of well-differentiated endocrine neoplasms (carcinoid tumors) in the lower gastrointestinal tract. Previously, we reported the consistent expression of peripherin in rectal well-differentiated endocrine neoplasms without metastases. However, its