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… pose/background: To report the clinical and radiographic features and treatment outcome of neuroendocrine tumor (carcinoid) metastasis to the orbit. Materials and methods: Retrospective chart review of four cases. Results: Mean patient age at the time of diagnosis of the primary neuroendocrine tumor and orbital metasta …
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Carcinoid tumors are slow-growing tumors that typically occur in the gastrointestinal (GI) tract, lungs, and other endocrine glands. They are commonly discovered incidentally and usually cause no symptoms. When symptomatic, they tend to present with vague abdominal pain and may lead to carcinoid syndrome after metastas …
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The coexistence of both mucinous adenocarcinoma and carcinoid tumor within an ovarian mature cystic teratoma is extremely rare. We report a case of an 18-year-old Omani woman with a left ovarian cyst. After laparotomy with left salpingo-oophorectomy, omentectomy, and peritoneal washings, the excised cyst had the typica …
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… e significance of serum chromogranin A (CgA) status in patients with and without different neuroendocrine tumors (NETs) by conducting a retrospective assessment of the diagnostic utility and limitations of CgA as a biomarker for NETs in a tertiary care hospital in Oman. Methods: We conducted a retrospective analysis of …
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Carcinoid tumors are relatively rare and can occur in the thorax, abdomen, or pelvis. Functional imaging in the form of Indium-111 pentetreotide scanning is widely used for identification of these tumors and it exploits the fact that the vast majority of these tumors express somatostatin receptors on their cell membran …