[Digestive carcinoid tumors]

J Radiol. 1993 May;74(5):279-82.
[Article in French]

Abstract

Three examples of intestinal carcinoid tumours are reported. As the signs in conventional radiology are non-specific and inconstant, the computed radiographic signs are stressed. Small bowel examination showed both direct signs, with intraluminal filling defects, and indirect signs with separated bowel loops, sometimes angulated and fixed. In one unusual case, all the jejunal loops were affected. On CT the specific finding was a retractile mesenteric infiltration.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Carcinoid Tumor / diagnostic imaging*
  • Carcinoid Tumor / pathology
  • Digestive System Neoplasms / diagnostic imaging*
  • Digestive System Neoplasms / pathology
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed