It explains the presence of carcinoid if someone have any familial occurrence. Carcinoid tumors are generally thought to be sporadic, except for a small proportion that occur as a part of multiple endocrine neoplasia syndromes. Data regarding the familial occurrence of carcinoid as well as its potential... 

Midgut Carcinoid is the type of Carcinoid tumor. General introduction Carcinoids are rare slowly growing, neuroendocrine tumors. In 1907 Obendorfer was the first to use the term carcinoid (Karzinoide). He described an ileal tumor with a much slower progression than expected from denocarcinomas. The... 

The most important treatment modality for the carcinoid syndrome is octreotide, a synthetic hormone similar in structure to the naturally-occurring hormone, somatostatin. Somatostatin is widely distributed in the body where it can inhibit the secretion of many other hormones including growth hormone,... 

Carcinoid tumor presents many diagnostic challenges. As rare cancers go, carcinoid tumors are among the more unusual. These slow-growing tumors can occur in almost any part of the body. If there are any symptoms at all, they tend to be misdiagnosed as other diseases, and the tumors are often discovered... 

Breast metastases from nonmammary malignant neoplasms are uncommon, accounting for approximately 2% of breast tumors. There are 13 cases reported in the literature of carcinoid tumor metastatic to the breast, and more than half of these cases were misdiagnosed pathologically and treated as primary breast...