Clinical Case Database / Category: Patient Management
Management of neuroendocrine tumours
Publication details
Dr Sarah Ellis, Dr Tamas Hickish, Dr Tom Geldart
Foundation Years Journal, volume 6, issue 9, p.42 (123Doc Education, London, October 2012)
Abstract
A 55 year old gentleman with a long history metastatic Bronchial Carcinoid developed signs and symptoms of Right Heart Failure over a 6 week period. Despite curative surgery ten years previously he had relapsed both in the chest and liver, and had subsequently received a variety of treatments to try to control his disease which had continued to slowly progress. He was admitted as an emergency with increasing shortness of breath and found to have severe stenosis of his right pulmonary artery caused by the growing tumour mass in his chest. The case discusses the subsequent management of this problem and the specialists involved, and also the diagnosis, management and treatment of neuroendocrine tumours.
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Authors
Dr Sarah Ellis
Oncology ST4 Wessex Deanery
Dr Tamas Hickish
Consultant Medical Oncologist
Royal Bournemouth Hospital.
Dr Tom Geldart
Consultant Medical Oncologist
Royal Bournemouth Hospital
References
1. Taal BG, Visser O. Epidemiology of neuroendocrine tumours. Neuroendocrinology 2004;80(suppl 1):3-7
2. Ramage JK et al. Guidelines for the management of gastroenteropancreatic neuroendocrine (including carcinoid) tumours (NETs). Gut 2012;61:6-32
3. Klimstra DS et al.The pathologic classification of neuroendocrine tumours: a review of nomenclature, grading and staging systems. Pancreas 2010;39(6);707-712
4. Fox DJ, Khattar RS.Carcinoid Heart Disease: presentation, diagnosis and management. Heart 2004:90:1224-1228
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