Carcinoid syndrome without liver metastasis

1 August 1989

journal article
case report
Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Postgraduate Medical Journal

Vol. 65 (766) , 597-599
https://doi.org/10.1136/pgmj.65.766.597

Abstract

Summary: The carcinoid syndrome generally occurs due to metastasis of a carcinoid tumour in the liver. A patient is presented who had carcinoid syndrome due to abdominal disease without hepatic metastasis.

Keywords

CARCINOID SYNDROME
TUMOUR
SYNDROME WITHOUT LIVER
LIVER METASTASIS SUMMARY
HEPATIC METASTASIS

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