Carcinoide intestina múltiple: Análisis de un caso y revisión de la literatura / Multiple carcinoid tumors of the small bowel: Report of one case

ABSTRACT

Small bowel carcinoid tumors are more common in the distal ileum and they are multiple in 30 percent of cases. The most common clinical manifestation is abdominal pain and the treatment of choice is surgical excision. We report a 63 years old female consulting for abdominal pain. An intestinal transit by computed axial tomography revealed multiple images compatible with small bowel carcinoid tumors. She had a surgical excision of the involved intestinal segment and the pathological study confirmed the imaging diagnosis. In the follow up, this patients has been asymptomatic.