Carcinoid Tumor Arising in a Tailgut Cyst of the Anorectal Junction with Distant Metastasis: A Case Report and Review of the Literature

Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 128, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 578-580

  Song, Dong Eun ^a   Park, Jean Kyung ^b   Hur, Bang ^b   Ro, Jae Y ^a  

^a University of Ulsan College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b University of Kosin School of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHROMOGRANIN; CYTOKERATIN; FLUOROURACIL; SYNAPTOPHYSIN;

ADULT; ANORECTAL DISEASE; ANUS; ANUS SURGERY; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CARCINOID; CASE REPORT; CHROMATIN; CLINICAL FEATURE; CYST; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; LIVER METASTASIS; RECTUM SURGERY; REVIEW; SIGMOIDOSCOPY; SOLID TUMOR; SUBMUCOSA; TAILGUT CYST;

ADULT; ANUS DISEASES; ANUS NEOPLASMS; CARCINOID TUMOR; FEMALE; HAMARTOMA; HUMANS; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; RECTAL DISEASES; RECTAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 2342463017     PISSN: 00039985     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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