LXXVII Serotonin and the Carcinoid Syndrome in Patients with Bronchial Tumors

1 December 1963

journal article
research article
Published by SAGE Publications in Annals of Otology, Rhinology & Laryngology

Vol. 72 (4) , 1024-1034
https://doi.org/10.1177/000348946307200416

Abstract

The association of the carcinoid syndrome and a bronchial tumor has been observed in 5 patients at the Mayo Clinic and in 22 patients studied elsewhere. In two instances the tumor was a small cell carcinoma; in the remainder it was a bronchial adenoma of the carcinoid type.

Keywords

ADENOCARCINOMA
BRONCHIAL NEOPLASMS
CYLINDROMA
LUNG NEOPLASMS
MALIGNANT CARCINOID SYNDROME
MECKEL'S DIVERTICULUM
NEOPLASM METASTASIS
OVARIAN NEOPLASMS
SEROTONIN
TERATOID TUMOR
URINE