Carcinoid tumor in a Meckel's diverticulum: Hypothesis on mutual embryological origin

International Surgery

Volumn 88, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 41-46

  Grossmann, Irene ^a   Akkersdijk, George J M ^a  

^a Department of Orthopaedic Surgery   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Carcinoid tumor; Embryological development; Malformation; Malignancy; Meckel's diverticulum

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CARCINOID; CASE REPORT; COLORECTAL CARCINOMA; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; ECTOPIC TISSUE; EMBRYOLOGY; ENDODERM; HUMAN; ILEUM CANCER; INFLAMMATION; INTUSSUSCEPTION; MALE; MECKEL DIVERTICULUM; MESENTERY; NEOPLASM; NEURAL CREST; NEUROENDOCRINE TUMOR; PATHOGENESIS; RESPIRATORY SYSTEM; YOLK SAC; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CYTOLOGY; ECTODERM; ILEUM TUMOR; MIDDLE AGED; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT;

CARCINOID TUMOR; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; ECTODERM; HUMANS; ILEAL NEOPLASMS; MALE; MECKEL DIVERTICULUM; MIDDLE AGED; NEURAL CREST;

EID: 0042736198     PISSN: 00208868     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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