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Carcinoid Tumors of the Gastrointestinal Tract
MERRILL O. HINES, M.D.;
PATRICK H. HANLEY, M.D.;
H. LAMAR BOESE, M.D.
AMA Arch Intern Med. 1955;96(4):500-506.
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Carcinoid tumors may arise anywhere in the gastrointestinal tract from the cardia to the rectum. They have also been reported in ectopic tissue of the gastrointestinal tract, as in dermoid cysts. Rarely, they are found in the bronchi, gall bladder, Meckel's diverticulum, nasal cavity, cervix, pancreas, neck, extrarectal region, testis, prostate, mesentery, and liver.
Carcinoid tumors of the gastrointestinal tract are comparatively rare lesions, although increasing numbers of cases are being reported with better understanding of the pathogenesis and pathology. Incidences ranging from 0.65% to 1.8% have been reported. Between 1947 and 1954, twenty-four cases of carcinoids of the gastrointestinal tract were encountered at the Ochsner Clinic. In addition, there was one carcinoid of the appendix seen in 1943. Our experience with these 25 cases will be reviewed and the literature on carcinoids discussed.
HISTORY
Lubarsch 1 is generally credited with describing the first case of carcinoid in 1888, although
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Author Affiliations
New Orleans
From the Section on Proctology, Ochsner Clinic (Drs. Hines and Hanley); Fellow in General Surgery, Alton Ochsner Medical Foundation (Dr. Boese).
Footnotes
Submitted for publication July 13, 1955.
Read before the Joint Meeting of the Section on Gastroenterology and Proctology and the Section on Pathology and Physiology at the 104th Annual Meeting of the American Medical Association, Atlantic City, June 9, 1955.
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