Carcinoid Tumor Arising from the Sphenoid Sinus Treated with Definitive Intensity-modulated Radiation Therapy: A Case Report

Head and neck neuroendocrine tumors (NET) are a rare type of cancer. NET can be classified according to the histopathological features. The typical carcinoid tumor is a well-differentiated tumor that is the least common among other types. Owing to its indolent behavior and variable radiological and...

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Autores principales: Hilal, Lara, Jammal, Mustafa, Khalifeh, Ibrahim, Tfayli, Arafat, Youssef, Bassem
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2019
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Pathology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6538226/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31183269
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.4288
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author Hilal, Lara
Jammal, Mustafa
Khalifeh, Ibrahim
Tfayli, Arafat
Youssef, Bassem
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Jammal, Mustafa
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description Head and neck neuroendocrine tumors (NET) are a rare type of cancer. NET can be classified according to the histopathological features. The typical carcinoid tumor is a well-differentiated tumor that is the least common among other types. Owing to its indolent behavior and variable radiological and pathological features, treatment of carcinoid tumors remains a challenge. We report a case of a 54-year-old man presenting with a non-operable carcinoid tumor arising in the sphenoid sinuses treated with radiotherapy with stable disease control after three years follow-up.
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spelling pubmed-65382262019-06-10 Carcinoid Tumor Arising from the Sphenoid Sinus Treated with Definitive Intensity-modulated Radiation Therapy: A Case Report Hilal, Lara Jammal, Mustafa Khalifeh, Ibrahim Tfayli, Arafat Youssef, Bassem Cureus Pathology Head and neck neuroendocrine tumors (NET) are a rare type of cancer. NET can be classified according to the histopathological features. The typical carcinoid tumor is a well-differentiated tumor that is the least common among other types. Owing to its indolent behavior and variable radiological and pathological features, treatment of carcinoid tumors remains a challenge. We report a case of a 54-year-old man presenting with a non-operable carcinoid tumor arising in the sphenoid sinuses treated with radiotherapy with stable disease control after three years follow-up. Cureus 2019-03-21 /pmc/articles/PMC6538226/ /pubmed/31183269 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.4288 Text en Copyright © 2019, Hilal et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Hilal, Lara
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Carcinoid Tumor Arising from the Sphenoid Sinus Treated with Definitive Intensity-modulated Radiation Therapy: A Case Report
title Carcinoid Tumor Arising from the Sphenoid Sinus Treated with Definitive Intensity-modulated Radiation Therapy: A Case Report
title_full Carcinoid Tumor Arising from the Sphenoid Sinus Treated with Definitive Intensity-modulated Radiation Therapy: A Case Report
title_fullStr Carcinoid Tumor Arising from the Sphenoid Sinus Treated with Definitive Intensity-modulated Radiation Therapy: A Case Report
title_full_unstemmed Carcinoid Tumor Arising from the Sphenoid Sinus Treated with Definitive Intensity-modulated Radiation Therapy: A Case Report
title_short Carcinoid Tumor Arising from the Sphenoid Sinus Treated with Definitive Intensity-modulated Radiation Therapy: A Case Report
title_sort carcinoid tumor arising from the sphenoid sinus treated with definitive intensity-modulated radiation therapy: a case report
topic Pathology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6538226/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31183269
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.4288
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