Lung fibrosis in carcinoid syndrome

Internal Medicine

Volumn 46, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 425-426

  Tamagno, Gianluca ^a,b   Goglia, Umberto ^a   Villa, Giuseppe ^c   Murialdo, Giovanni ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Neuroendocrine tumor; Octreoscan; Respiratory failure; Serotonin

Indexed keywords

ALPHA INTERFERON; CORTICOSTEROID; CYPROHEPTADINE; OCTREOTIDE; ONDANSETRON; SEROTONIN;

ABDOMINAL CRAMP; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRONCHOSPASM; BRONCHUS STENOSIS; CARCINOID SYNDROME; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CYANOSIS; DEATH; DIARRHEA; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; ERYTHEMA; FEMALE; FIBROSING ALVEOLITIS; FLUSHING; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER METASTASIS; LUNG FIBROSIS; LUNG GAS EXCHANGE; LUNG NODULE; METABOLIC ACIDOSIS; METASTASIS POTENTIAL; PH; RESPIRATORY ACIDOSIS; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; SEROTONIN BLOOD LEVEL; STOMACH CARCINOID; TELANGIECTASIA;

CONTRAST MEDIA; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALIGNANT CARCINOID SYNDROME; MIDDLE AGED; PULMONARY FIBROSIS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 34247160503     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: 13497235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.46.6367     Document Type: Article

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