Ampullary Somatostatinoma: Psammomatous Variant of Gastrointestinal Carcinoid Tumor—An Immunohistochemical and Ultrastructural Study. Report of a Case and Review of the Literature
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- 1 November 1983
- journal article
- case report
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in American Journal of Clinical Pathology
- Vol. 80 (5) , 755-761
- https://doi.org/10.1093/ajcp/80.5.755
Abstract
A 28-year-old man presented with epigastric pain and obstructive jaundice associated with a histologically and immunologically unusual variant of carcinoid tumor involving the ampulla of Vater. The tumor contained abundant psammoma bodies and exhibited immunoreactivity only for somatostatin. Immunoperoxidase studies for insulin, glucagon, vasoactive intestinal peptide, calcitonin, serotonin, and ACTH had negative results. In contrast to most somatostatinomas of pancreatic origin, clinically this ampullary somatostatinoma was not accompanied by features of the somatostatinoma syndrome. A literature review of the clinical and hormonal features in reported cases of gastrointestinal and pancreatic somatostatinomas is presented.Keywords
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