A 65-year-old woman with a history of type 2 diabetes, coronary artery disease with congestive heart failure and nephropathy presented with severe, intermittent, crampy abdominal pain and chronic ...

A 36-year-old asymptomatic female patient has a 2-cm carcinoid tumor of the appendix found incidentally on gynecologic laparoscopy. Appendectomy revealed 1 positive lymph node in the mesoappendix ...

The authors present a case of a 48-year-old man with a history of diarrhea, flushing and upper abdominal pain who was subsequently diagnosed with metastatic carcinoid tumor. The authors discuss ...

Abdominal CT scans (also called CAT scans), are a type of specialized X-ray. They help your doctor see the organs, blood vessels, and bones in your abdomen. We’ll explain why your doctor may ...

A 24-year-old thin Caucasian female with a very vague stated history of "some kind of tumor in my appendix when they took it out," says she did not go back ...

A group of physicians and practitioners, known as a multidisciplinary team (MDT), discuss with one another regarding the therapy that best suits a patient with a carcinoid tumor and the related ...

There are 11,000-15,000 new cases of carcinoid diagnosed every year in the U.S, and an estimated 115,000 Americans are currently living with the disease. Skip to content All Sections ...

Dear Dr. Roach: My father suffers from carcinoid syndrome, and I was wondering if it is hereditary. For many years now, I have gotten a strange numb feeling in my mid-abdomen region that comes and ...