Endoscopic treatment of gastric carcinoids

Autor: P, Spinelli, F G, Cerrai, G, Casella, P, Pizzetti
Rok vydání: 1994
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Zdroj: Minerva chirurgica. 49(4)
ISSN: 0026-4733
Popis: Carcinoids are the most common endocrine tumours, and arise from a multipotential primitive stem cell; the gastric location represents 2% of all carcinoids. From 1979 to 1992 at the Endoscopy Division of Istituto Nazionale Tumori, Milan, 2 patients suffering from single gastric carcinoid were endoscopically treated by electro-resection. No complication occurred during the treatment; 2 year- and 5-year-follow-up was performed in these patients, and no recurrence are observed. Surgical treatment represents the therapy of choice for gastric carcinoids, but endoscopic resection can represent an alternative in selected cases (lesions less than 1 cm or carcinoids with multicentric growth). Endoscopy can be used also in patients at high surgical risk.
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