Peptide YY producing strumal carcinoid of the ovary as the cause of severe constipation with contralateral epithelial ovarian cancer

Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Research

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 392-396

  Kawano, Kouichiro ^a   Ushijima, Kimio ^a   Fujimoto, Takefumi ^a   Komai, Kan ^a   Kamura, Toshiharu ^a  

^a KURUME UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Carcinoid tumor; Constipation; Endometriosis; Ovarian cancer; Peptide YY

Indexed keywords

CARBOPLATIN; PACLITAXEL; PEPTIDE YY;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CARCINOID; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSTIPATION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CYTOLOGY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LAPAROTOMY; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; NULLIPARA; OVARY ADENOCARCINOMA; OVARY CANCER; OVARY TUMOR; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION;

ADENOCARCINOMA, CLEAR CELL; CARCINOID TUMOR; CONSTIPATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS, MULTIPLE PRIMARY; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; OVARY; PEPTIDE YY;

EID: 34250664193     PISSN: 13418076     EISSN: 14470756     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1447-0756.2007.00544.x     Document Type: Article

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