A carcinoid tumour of the lower ileum

✍ Scribed by W. Quarry Wood

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1936
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 389 KB
• Volume: 23
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0007-1323
• DOI: 10.1002/bjs.1800239209

✦ Synopsis

Abstract
Carcinoid tumours of the gastro-intestinal tract have excited a great deal of interest among pathologists during the past twenty years, an interest which is perhaps out of proportion to their clinical importance. They are rare tumours, but in their origin, structure, and method of spread they present peculiarities which are responsible for the amount of attention they have attracted. They are most common in the appendix, but have been recorded as occurring in all parts of the abdominal alimentary canal. The cases recorded in the small intestine up to the latter part of 1934 numbered 152; since then a few additional cases have appeared in the literature. The comparative rarity of the tumour and the fact that it is now being recognized that a rather characteristic group of symptoms are frequently associated with the condition may justify the publication of another case.